[sane-devel] HP Scanjet G 2710

[Peter Hoyer]

Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009 22:34:51 schrieb m. allan noah:
> I dont use SUSE, but I can make some educated guesses about their system:
>
> 1. install the libusb-devel package from suse. I assume yast can do this?
>
> 2. as root, remove parts of existing sane
>
> rm -rf /usr/lib/sane
> rm -f /usr/lib/libsane*
> rm -rf /etc/sane.d
>
> 3. as non-root: download sane backends snapshot from:
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/
>
> 4. tar xzf sane-backends-VERSION.tar.gz (replace VERSION with that of
> the file you downloaded)
>
> 5. cd sane-backends
>
> 6. ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking
>
> 7. make
>
> 8. as root, in the same directory: make install
>
> 9. Then run 'scanimage -L' as root with the scanner plugged in and turned
> on, and lets see if it shows up.
>
it works, great. xsane doesn't work anymore, but with kooka everything is 
fine. Many thanks you for your support. Now I can start scanning old dias and 
negatives and have not to wait until opensuse reaches the current status of 
the sane project.

kind regards

Peter