[sane-devel] Vuego 310S scanner help

[John Coppens]

Hello...

Does your friend have SCSI support compiled into his kernel? Seems to
me that could be the reason. Check if /proc/scsi contains info about
connected interfaces.

John

On 25 Dec 2002 08:47:32 +0900
David Blomberg <dblomber at libertec.com> wrote:

> A friend has asked me to help locate a problem he has on his new
> Mandrake 9.0 system in which the system shows the scanner but XSANE does
> not see it.  in his own words:
> 
> "My scanner is a vuego 310s. I installed it under win95. it works well
> under win98se
> I installed an interface card in an isa-bus slot and hooked the scanner
> to the pc using an old fashioned scsi cable ... wide as distinct from
> the modern ones which do not have 
> The Vuego is listed by Mandrake anderhardware > scanners
> as su I set up the scenner using this program and was told scanner
> installed use xsane to run it
> when I hit the xsane button I got the response xsane: no devices
> available
> 
> so I went to SANE on the web and looked at sane-snapscan.5 (it lists
> Vuego 310s) which I have printed out and am trying to understand
> 
> eg DEVICE NAMES
>        This backend expects device namse of the form:
>               special"
> 
> I had him run sane-find-scanner which you can find the listing for in
> "vuego.txt" and then being we are not sure which dev the scanner is
> under I had him give me a listing of the /dev and sub-dirs (happy.txt) 
> If anyone has any help to offer please let me know as he really would
> like to get this fixed.
> 
> Thank You
> 
> David Blomberg
> cybersekkin at yahoo.com
> dblomber at libertec.com
> 
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