[sane-devel] gt68xx: Everything works but scanimage fails

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:27:02PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
[I wrote:]
> > See man sane-gt68xx. Vor an overview about sane and all the sane
> > manual pages, see man sane. Or do you mean that the sane-gt68xx manual
> > page is not in the debian package? In this case, file a bug report in
> > the Debian bug tracking system.
> 
> The latter . . .

At least in Aurelian's 1.0.11-2 package, the manual page does exist. I
just installed it.

> > Have a look ath the debug output:
> > SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=255 scanimage -L
> > 
> > If you can't find out what's wrong, send the debug output to this list.
> > If you don't get any debug output, check that "gt68xx" is in dll.conf.
> 
> I don't get any output and "gt68xx" is in dll.conf.

That means that the gt68xx backend isn't loaded at all.

> Because there was only a dll.conf.dpkg-dist on

Broken installation. At least libsane 1.0.11-2 installs dll.conf into
/etc/sane.d/.

> my system I copied it to dll.conf. But no difference
> -- no output of
> $ SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=255 scanimage -L
>  I tried this before already. I really don't know what's
> going wrong on my system . . . Any further suggestions?

apt-get update; apt-get install libsane (to get the latest version)

Check that your sane packages are installed correctly.

Bye,
  Henning