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

[Sylvain Petreolle]

I'm currently running a snapscan e20 USB with RH 7.3.
No problem, worked immediately after update.

 --- Jim Newton <jimka at rdrop.com> a écrit : > 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 at 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 at meier-geinitz.de>
> > > To: sane-devel at 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
> > >
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