[sane-devel] NEWBIE - (probably) very silly question SORRY !

[khk at khk.net]

As Henning has already pointed out, you first have to make sure that
the scanner is found by the USB scanner driver. I am working on
a procedure description to get EPSON USB scanners to work. It's not
done yet, but maybe it can provide some important pointers:

http://www.khk.net/sane/checklist.html

Plese let me know if this helps, or if it does not, where you found
problems.

Karl Heinz

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:13:13AM +0100, riccardo ferraro wrote:
>> I have SUSE 8.0 with SANE 1.0.7-59 and an Epson Perfection 1660 USB
>> scanner.
>> I've downloaded the last version of SANE from mostang/sane (both
>> backend end  frontend). I ran ./configure, make and make install on
>> both without  any  error messages. ehmmmmmmm...... what have I got to
>> do next ?
>> I tried to use as usual YAST2 (SUSE's Setup tool), but I got an error
>> message complaining that SANE was not found. Probably SUSE wants
>> SANE's files in a different position with respect to the place where
>> the installation put them ?!?
>
> I think Yast doesn't find SANE because you don't have SANE RPMs
> installed. The paths shouldn't matter in this case.
>
>> BTW, I launched sane-find-scanner which did not find any scanner. With
>> the default SUSE 8,0  configuration with SANE 1.0.7-59
>> sane-find-scanner finds my scanner as it should be.
>
> If sane-find-scanner doesn't find scanners it's usually either a
> kernel or permission issue. You should make sure that the kernel
> scanner driver module is loaded and detects your scanner. Have a look at
> /proc/bus/usb/devices, ther should be a line with
> "driver=usbscanner". If it's "driver=(none)", the scanner driver
> hasn't found the scanner. See man sane-usb for details, also for
> permission problems.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
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