[sane-devel] Boeder SmartScan Slim Edition on SuSE

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Wed Feb 4 20:58:30 GMT 2004


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:44:29AM -0000, Jim George wrote:
> Eddy De Greef very kindly gave me a libsane-gt68xx.so.1.0.13 compiled on a
> SuSE environment that uses libusb.  ldd on this showed that it was
> compiled with libusb-so.1.0.4  Isn't the supported module libusb-so.1.0.6?

Well, the version must be 0.1.6 or newer. As far as I know that
version number is not the same as the (libtool?) number of the library
(*-so.a.b.c). My libusb looks like this: /usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.3.0

> I don't have the .usb file and am not sure where I can get it from as the
> scanner came without software (I bought it from eBay :( ).

You'll nee the firmware for scanning. Detection will work without it.

> sane-find-scanner -q provides no output at all.

Possible reason: if SANE is linked to libusb there are some other
possible reasons: 
- permissions (does it work as root)?
- USB drivers are loaded (at least the host controller driver)?
- /proc and /proc/bus/usb is mounted?
- /proc/bus/usb/devices should show your device

bye,
  Henning




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