[sane-devel] installing hp - scanner

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Frank Coldewe wrote:
> my scanner is not found by the sane-find-scanner -tool.

sane-find-scanner doesn't output anything?

The kernel scanner module is loaded?

> I have compiled the kernel with:

Which version?

>     UHCI
>     USB Divice Filesystems
>     USB Scanner support
>     USB Handspring Visior Support
> 
>     Prelminary USB  Device Filesystem
> 
> 
> /proc/bus/usb is mounted on none as usbdevfs

And what's the output of "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices"?
Maybe your scanner wasn't detected by the kernel scanner driver.

> the following devices are configured with
> 
> mknod /dev/usb/usbscanner0 c 180 48

Looks fine.

> mknod a+rw /dev/usb/usbscanner0

Probably chmod not mknod.

> sane-frondends-1.0.6 requests after ./configure:
> 
> GUI`s   activated    (xcam  + xscanimage)
> GIMP   deactivated for scannimage         ..... any idea why and how i
> can change this

See INSTALL. Gimp libs and headers must have been installed. If you
think they are, have a look at the error message about gimp some lines
above in the configure output and in config.log.

Bye,
  Henning