<DIV>Bengt-</DIV>
<DIV>I had the same problem with a SCSI scanner (upgraded from RedHat 7.2, so I was unfamiliar with changes to sane), but had a different explanation than did Hanno. My issue was that I needed to create a link to my scanner driver named /dev/scanner.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope it helps.</DIV>
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<DIV>On 26 Nov 2003 13:55:27 +0200<BR>Bengt Lindholm <bengt lindholm salnet fi> wrote:<BR><BR>> Is there somebody with a working scsi-scanner?<BR>> <BR>> My Umax PL-II worked fine with RedHat 9 out of the box. Then I<BR>> installed Fedora from scratch and even as root the "sane-find-scanner"<BR>> does not find anythig. Fedora knows, that the sacnner is there<BR>> (scanner -> sg1). I uninstalled the old sane-backends, got the latest<BR>> from sane-project.org and configured it. The same result. Is it<BR>> possible, that the scsi is somehow already in use and that is why the<BR>> sane-find-scanner or xsane does not work?<BR>I observed the same problem with a different scanner.<BR>Here the problems were<BR>1) a 'wrongful' entry in the /etc/ld.so.conf<BR> - remove the sane entry and make sure /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib are<BR>both there before /sbin/ldconfig /sbin/depmod -a<BR><BR>2) when configuring sanebackends and xsane i made !
sure the
the config<BR>directory is /etc and not /local/etc<BR><BR>After that everything worked fine<BR>cheers hanno</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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