[sane-devel] Boeder SmartScan Slim Edition on SuSE

Jim George jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:35:21 -0000 (GMT)


Hi Allan,

yes its in the list of supported scanners, Boeder Slimscan Edition.

Jim
>
> no problem man, or should i say, old chap...
>
> :)
>
> is this scanner in our supported scanners list, if not we need to add
> it...
>
> allan
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jim George wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for your patience :)  I followed your instructions, again, to
>> the letter, this time, and......it worked!
>>
>>
>> Thanks again very much.
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> > 1. when you are going to start building things from source, stop
>> using rpm. find the latest libusb.tar.gz at
>> http://libusb.sourceforge.net/, and  install that. (should be 0.1.7
>> or greater)
>> >
>> > 2. you still have scanner.o in the kernel. your hot-plugging scripts
>> are
>> >  likely doing this. you can either remove the kernel scanner module
>> (it
>> > lives in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/scanner.o), or
>> you can comment out the lines that try to load it when they see your
>> scanner. (look in /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap or nearby for your
>> vendor's id)
>> >
>> > allan
>> >
>> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jim George wrote:
>> >
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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