[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner works but scanimage does not find a scanner

[Jim Newton]

this sounds like a similar problem to one reported on the newsgroup
linux.redhat.   sounds like it could be a problem with XSane-0.84
and the related sane packages.

has anyone gotten a USB scanner working under redhat 7.3?

-jim



Jim Newton wrote:
> 
> hi henning et al, thanks for the information.  in fact i'm already
> running
> with setenv SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN 255, and when i use scanimage -L i seem
> to get the exact imformation as before.
> 
> yes, my scanner is the SnapScan e40, and yes i've already read
> extensively
> and many times the web page you  mentioned:
> http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/
> 
> [jimka@localhost sane-backends-1.0.7]$ scanimage -L
> 
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> I've read the web pages for sane and for snapscan and much documentation
> for scanimage, and xscanimage and for xsane and for sane, but i have not
> found an explanation of what it is that scanimage needs in order to find
> a scanner.  aparently it needs something more than sane-find-scanner
> needs.
> 
> -jim
> 
> > Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:33:50 +0200
> > From: Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
> > To: sane-devel@mostang.com
> > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] sane-find-scanner works but scanimage does not find scanner
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:05:44PM +0200, Jim Newton wrote:
> > > hi, i've installed all the lastest sane rpms under redhat 7.2.
> > > when i run sane-find-scanner i get promising results.
> >
> > If you read the text sane-find-scanner prints you will find out that
> > this just means that your scanner was detected by the kernel. This
> > doesn't necessarily mean, that it is supported by SANE or was detected
> > by a backend.
> >
> > > but scanimage cannot find any SANE devices.  Any ideas of what
> > > might be wrong, or what i can try, or how i can get more debugging
> > > information?
> >
> > A rather interesting information would be which scanner you use :-)
> >
> > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x06bd, product = 0x208d)
> > > at device /dev/usb/scanner0
> >
> > This is an Agfa Scanner (from the vendor id)? From snapscan.conf I
> > guess you have a SnapScan e40? Looks like it is supported.
> >
> > If you run scanimage like this:
> >
> > SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 scanimage -L
> >
> > you should get more information about what's going on.
> >
> > The snapscan maintainers will probably be able to provide more help.
> > Maybe you can fins usefull information here:
> > http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Bye,
> >   Henning
> >