[sane-devel] scanimage -L does not load my backend

Tabor Kelly tkelly-sane-devel at taborandtashell.net
Tue Aug 15 05:42:50 UTC 2006


James Liggett wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:30 -0700, Tabor Kelly wrote:
> 
>>I am in the process of writing a backend for my CANON CanoScan FS2720U 
>>slide and film scanner. My backend is no where near functional, but I 
>>noticed that if I run 'scanimage -L' my backend is not loaded. However, 
>>if I run 'scanimage -d canonfs2720u' my backend is loaded. What am I 
>>missing?
> 
> I think you need to add your backend name to your /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> file.
> 
> HTH
> 

Excellent. I had actually done that in my build directory, I guess 'make 
install' will not overwrite existing .conf files (for good reason).

Thanks,

Tabor




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