Re: message - "device not available"

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:28:04 PDT

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    MRZ wrote:
    >
    > Hi folks.
    > Not exactly a dev question, but one I hope someone can still help me
    > with.
    > I'm trying to identify what resource I need to be examining
    > (read/edit/etc..) to understand why my sane scanner source is available
    > to xscanimage, but not to xsane (and by extension as a gimp plugin). I'm
    > running debian potato on kernel 2.4.3, sane 1.03 and using a plustek
    > opticpro 9636T parallel port scanner.
    >
    > Simply put, xsane returns "no devices available" even when launched at
    > console; while trying xscanimage brings up a scan dialog from which I
    > can (and have!) scanned images to and saved to file.
    >
    > This is all new to me, but I've looked at the man for xsane and gimp and
    > still don't see where I need to start for this.

    Hi Marc,

    did you read xsane.INSTALL and xsane.PROBLEMS?
    There are described the known reasons and solutions for this
    behaviour.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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