[sane-devel] Sane is definately not Scanner Access Now Easy

[Major A]

> Have finally gotten sane-find-scanner working and scanimage -L working as
> root after over 3 days trying. Have to do PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin though.
> Tried the profiles.local, that did not work. Does anyone have any idea how
> to make the add to the path environment on a permanent basis?

Have you tried /etc/bashrc? /etc/profile etc. are only executed on
login.

> When I execute xsane, I get 
> Gtk-Warning **: Unable to locate loadable module in module-path:
> "libpixmap.so" even though file is located in
> /opt/gnome/lib/gtk/themes/engines,
> then it comes up, cannot find scanner. Added the path to the
> /etc/module.conf, still no work.

I have no libpixmap.so on my computer, so it cannot be too much or a
problem. In any case, /etc/module.conf (are you sure it's not
/etc/modules.conf?) is for kernel modules rather than GTK/GNOME
modules, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

> Tried Gimp, it also cannot find scanner even though I done the 
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/ Per the Xsane website which
> also did not work, so I done ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane
> /opt/gnome/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/ which appeared to take but gimp still
> cannot find scanner.

Does GIMP print any error messages? Try running it from within an
xterm, it might print things there. It looks like you did not have the
GIMP development packages installed when you built xsane, so xsane has
disabled GIMP plugin support.

  Andras

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