[sane-devel] Problem in setting up Xsane (problem half solved)

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Dr. Jones wrote:
> Herr Meier-Geinitz:

Sorry for starting a rant just at the beginning, it's not directed to
you only:

1) This is a mailing list. I'm not the only one who answers. Please do
   not direct mails to me. If I can, I will answer. But most of the
   time there are other developers or users who are qualified better.
2) Start a new thread when you don't respond to an existing message.
   If you want to ask about a different topic, do not reply to an existing
   message but write a new one. I nearly missed your message because
   it was inside this thread.

Now for your questions:

> I am having trouble getting sane and xsane set up on my system. I
> have an HP ScanJet 4c with the symbios SCSI card. It worked fine
> under windows and I notice in the sane docs that it should work with
> linux. 

> My problems may lie in the initial set up of sane, xsane and
> sane-frontends in my debian linux system.

For most scanners, it's not necessary to set up any part of SANE at all.

> I read that I could run 'sane-find-scanner' and yet even after
> reinstalling sane and xsane, I could not run that command. 

You mean that that file is not found? So you didn't install it. Which
version of SANE do you use? In very old versions sane-find-scanner was
not installed.

> If I run 'locate sane' I get a host of directories where various sane
> files and folders exist. I am wishing I could purge everything
> related to sane from my system and then start afresh with a clean new
> setup of sane.

If you use RPMs, just uninstall all the sane packages from your system
by using your package management tool or rpm directly.

As for your scanner: First load the SCSI driver for your symbios scsi
card and make sure it is detected (cat /proc/scsi/scsi).

Bye,
  Henning