[sane-devel] libusb scanner not found

Dan Christian robodan@idiom.com
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:06:20 -0700


Thank you!

I had an old version of Epson's iscan (1.5.0) installed.  Since that is really 
a hacked up sane backend, it was getting loaded instead.

I remove iscan and re-installed all the sane stuff.  Now xsane comes up 
properly.

Thanks again,
-Dan

On Monday 20 September 2004 05:51 pm, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Dan Christian (by way of Dan Christian
> > [epson] SANE Epson Backend v1.5.0ek - 2002-12-02
>
> This is wrong... The version that's in 1.0.14 should report this string:
>
> SANE Epson Backend v0.2.41 - 2004-02-01
>
> Are you sure that you only have one version of Sane installed? I've
> never
> release a version with the version number v1.5.0ek, I have no idea where
> this is coming from... I don't have FC2, so I cannot verify this
> behavior.
>
> If the backend is really from 12/02, you will not be able to use it
> with a libusb system (which is what every 2.6.x system uses).