[sane-devel] No devices available

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:05:42AM +1100, Barry Kirsten wrote:
> I can't get xsane to recognise my Canoscan 600 scanner under Debian 3.0.

Try "SANE_DEBUG_CANON=255 scanimage -L" to get more debug information.

> The aha152x module loads and is configured correctly, as reported by dmesg:
> aha152x1: trying software interrupt, ok.
> scsi1 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 2.4 $
> (scsi1:6:0) 01 03 01 32 08 00
>   Vendor: CANON     Model: IX-06015C         Rev: 2.02
>   Type:   Scanner                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Sane-find-scanner correctly detects the scanner, as follows:
> debian:/home/barry# sane-find-scanner
> <snip>
> sane-find-scanner: found SCSI scanner "CANON IX-06015C 2.02" at device 
> /dev/sg1
> 
> When I start xsane I get a message: 'No devices available' Can someone please 
> tell me what is going on and what I have to do th fix it.

Did you put /dev/sg1 in canon.conf or set a link /dev/scanner to
/dev/sg1? I think that's necessary for the canon backend.

Bye,
  Henning