[sane-devel] no scanner found (Mandrake8.1)
Henning Meier-Geinitz
henning at meier-geinitz.de
Sun Oct 14 17:15:30 BST 2001
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:53:39AM -0400, James Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. It has the rpm package
> sane-backends-1.05. I have a Microtek V6USL attached to a aic7xxx SCSI
> card. The scanner is present in the bootup, when you run cdrecord
> -scanbus and in harddrake. The program find-scanner says there is no
> scanner. When I was running Mandrake7.2 and sane-1.03 the scanner was
> present but the light failed to turn on. The scanner is listed as lun 6
> on scsibus0, zip drive lun5 on scsibus0 and there is ide cdrw on
> scsibus1 with lun0.
The problem was that the "Vendor" name is empty for this scanner. With
an explicit "/dev/sg0" in microtek2.conf the scanner was detected by
scanimage -L. However, I don't know why it wasn't found by
sane-find-scanner.
Bye,
Henning
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