[sane-devel] 'scanner busy' 'no devices found' etc.

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:14:31PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> I upgraded my RH8 system to FC2 day before yesterday and today I have
> been tidying up the install and setting my preferences and testing all
> my hardware. I ran Kooka and did some test scans and all were OK. I then
> tried scanimage which bash complained about. 'rpm -qi sane' resulted in
> the reply 'package sane not installed'. So... Kooka doesn't use sane it
> appears. That would explain why kooka worked before and scanimage
> didn't. Kooka must have its own backend etc.

Are you sure? I rather think that "sane" contains frontends like
xscanimage and scanimage and the actual backends are in
"sane-backends" or "Libsane". At least that's the case on Debian
systems.

Bye,
  Henning