Re: message(2) - "device not available"

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (henning@meier-geinitz.de)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:15:19 PDT

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    Hi,

    On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:07:39PM -0400, MRZ wrote:
    > Oliver suggested:
    > > did you read xsane.INSTALL and xsane.PROBLEMS?
    > > There are described the known reasons and solutions for this
    > > behaviour.
    > >
    > > Bye
    > > Oliver
    > I don't appear to have either of these two files, though I do have a
    > number of others in html format under "/usr/share/doc/xsane/sane".
    > Perhaps this might be because I installed xsane using debian's apt-get
    > facility?

    Probably. Check if /etc/ld.so.conf contains "/usr/local/lib". If it
    doesn't, add this entry and run ldconfig.

    > Also..
    > Henning mentioned:
    > > To see details about what the backend is doing use
    > >
    > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L
    > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 xscanimage
    > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 xsane
    > Trying this at a console produces (identical)debug output for scanimage
    > and xscanimage; but for xsane there isn't any output at all before the
    > "device not available" dialog appears.

    If the above doesn't work, try
    SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 xsane

    > Other things I've done include having added a path reference for
    > libraries into ld.so.conf;

    /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib/sane?

    What's the result of ldd /path/to/xsane?

    Bye,
      Henning

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