[sane-devel] Fwd: Problems after upgrading to Redhat 8.0

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Tue Apr 8 17:47:53 BST 2003


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:46:09PM +0100, Nicholas Robinson wrote:
> I've been using sane and xsane with a snapscan 1236 for over a year and
> upgraded a number of times. I usually use xsane across the network and have
> no trouble.
> 
> I've just upgraded to RH8.0 and my sane-backends and xsane were 'upgraded'.
> 
> I've now got sane-backends 1.0.8 and xsane 0.90-1.

sane-backends-1.0.8 is pretty old.

> I now can't run xsane either on the local machine with the scanner attached
>  or across my network. If I do a sane-find-scanner on the local machine as an
>  ordinary user then I can see the device and also through /proc/scsi/scsi.
>  Whenever I try xsane (or scanimage, xscanimage, etc.) I am told there are no
>  sane devices available.
> 
> Can anyone suggest why this is?

Is "snapscan" in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf? If yes, what's the output of
SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 scanimage -L

Bye,
  Henning



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