[sane-devel] No Sane Device Found

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:01:51AM +0100, Major A wrote:
> > >I don't have any scanner or camera.  Since it's stated in Sane
> > > documents that i don't have
> > >to own a scanner or camera to play with sane.  I did follow the
> > > instruction to fetch and unpack the
> > >compressed tar file, then follow the instructions in README. But
> > > when i try to execute this command
> > >
> > >scanimage --list-devices but the no Sane device found. 
> > 
> > As you stated, you don't have any sane compatible devices.  Like 
> > Tiger and the commercial, "you were expecting Igor?" :-)
> 
> Actually, the SANE documentation refers to the PNM backend here. It
> allows you to test any SANE frontend without actually having a
> scanner. It is, however, disabled by default, for security
> reasons. You have to supply the "--enable-pnm-backend" switch to
> ./configure when you build the backends in order to enable it.

Hey, everyone forgets about the test backend :-)
No need to recompile.

Try "scanimage -d test --help" or "xsane test". If you want it to be
listed in scanimage -L, edit dll.conf and enable the "test" line by
removing the "#".

Bye,
  Henning