[sane-devel] trouble with sane-1.0.7

[Jost Diederichs]

Try completely uninstalling sane. Make sure the lib/sane directory is gone and 
do a fresh install. There a re some previous posts on this. 
Did you upgrade using the rpm that comes with RedHat 7.3?

 - Jost

On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:37 pm, Morten Arnesen wrote:
> hi !
>
> i just upgraded sane to 1.0.7 and got some strange problems;
>
> here is output from rpm:
> [root at server /root]# rpm -qa|grep sane
> sane-frontends-1.0.7-2
> sane-backends-devel-1.0.7-6
> xsane-0.84-2
> sane-backends-1.0.7-6
> xsane-gimp-0.84-2
>
> sane-find-scanner find my scanner ok, but scanimage don't.
>
> my dll.conf contains "net" and "scanimage".
>
> my scanimage.conf contains a pointer to /dev/scanner which is a symbolic
> link to /dev/sg3.
>
> output from sane-find-scanner:
> [root at server /root]# sane-find-scanner
> # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
> # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
> # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
> # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.
>
> sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.20" at device
> /dev/scanner
> sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.20" at device
> /dev/sg3
> sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 310 1.20" at device
> /dev/sgd
>
> and ouput from scanimage -L:
> [root at server /root]# 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).
>
> how do i correct this problems, tough i cannot find a sollution not on
> faq nor documentation?