[sane-devel] losing hair and sleep over this

Karl Heinz Kremer khk@khk.net
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:51:33 -0500


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Do you have read and write access to the device file /dev/usb/scanner0 ?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:51:17PM -0500, noah wrote:
> i had the new version, and the new version exclusively, on my system and =
it didn't work.
> i did remove it when i installed 1.0.5, and rpm agrees. 1.0.5 just happen=
s to be using /usr/local/etc/sane.d instead of /etc/sane.d like i though. i=
 changed the epson.conf in that directory, and here is the new output.
>=20
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:18:13 -0500
> Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net> wrote:
>=20
> > There is your problem: Nobody is commenting out the line - you have
> > very likely two of these files on your system, and probably two full
> > installations of Sane. This will always cause problems if you don't=20
> > know what you are doing. Remove one installation. You probably have
> > the original Red Hat 8 version (do rpm -q sane to find out which=20
> > version) and then the 1.0.5 that you intalled. Get rid of one and
> > keep only the newest version (if it's the one that you installed,
> > you should consider compiling and installing the just released 1.0.9)
> >=20
> > Karl Heinz


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