[sane-devel] unclear error message

[m. allan noah]

Actually, it might have worked under 1.0.20 and 1.0.22, but been
broken under 1.0.21.

allan

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jeremy Dawson
<jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 11:06 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote:
>>
>> You might try an update to 1.0.22, which is in the Fedora 14 "updates"
>> repository.  Either use "yum update" for a general update of your Fedora
>> system, or "yum update sane-backends" to update just that.
>>
>> Alternatively (if your machine has no Internet access) retrieve just the
>> sane-backends package from:
>>
>>
>> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/14/i386/sane-backends-1.0.22-3.fc14.i686.rpm
>>
>> and copy it for local installation on the subject system.
>>
>> I expect the SANE maintainers would prefer to diagnose a problem on the
>> latest version, instead of 1.0.21.
>>
>>
>
> Seems to work now!  Surprise, as I had the scanner working under Ubuntu a
> year or so ago, long before Fedora 14 arrived, so I didn't think of the
> possibility that the problem would be due to having old software.
>
> Anyway, it works now - thanks very much
>
> Jeremy
>



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