[sane-devel] configuring devicename so it can be used in gimp

[m. allan noah]

this would seem to be the sort of thing that would be set in the 
backends conf (if it has one), rather than in dll.conf. perhaps you can 
check with the developers of that backend?

please dont double post.

allan

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Praveen Kallakuri wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am relatively new to sane and after digging around for a few hours now, I
> still cannot find the solution to what seems to be a simple problem.
>
> I can get xsane to start up and connect to my scanner using the following
> command:
>
> xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6300_series?ip=192.168.15.102
>> 
>
> But without the devicename, i get the "no devices avaliable" error. I can
> live with this if I used xsane standalone, but I want to use it from gimp.
>
>>> From the xsane man page:
>
> When xsane is started from the gimp then it is not possible  to  add  a
>> devicename explicitly. You have to make the devices known to the system by
>> configuring sane-dll, sane-net and saned.
>> 
>
> Problem is that I don't know what else to do in terms of sane-dll
> configuration except that I have ensured that there is an
> /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip and that file has the "hpaio" backend in it (I am
> running ubuntu dapper). I also tried specifying the backend directly in
> dll.conf and also adding  "hpaio:/net/Officejet_6300_series?ip=
> 192.168.15.102" but to no avail.
>
> sane-net and and saned don't seem to be relevant to my situation since it
> seems to enable controlling "devices attached to a remote host". saned seems
> to do the opposite and that seems irrelevant too.
>
> Any help?
>
>

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