From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 23: 7:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (mailhop1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB7637BBD4 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dheller1@rochester.rr.com) Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com ([24.92.226.146]) by mailhop1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:04:15 -0400 Received: from rochester.rr.com ([24.24.34.106]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:09:17 -0400 Message-ID: <390641AC.C49367C0@rochester.rr.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:09:00 -0400 From: David Heller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brent Rector Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sane & Freebsd 3.4 References: <3900F21F.68DD55C2@talou.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brent Rector wrote: > > Has anyone successfully installed the "sane" port? For some reason it > installed properly, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to > attach the backend to it so that it will utilize even the test backend. > > When I type "scanimage -L" it returns absolutely nothing... > > Very confused on Good Friday, > > Brent > -- > Brent L. Rector brent@talou.net > SysAdmin > Talou Internet Services Corp. http://www.talou.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me > to > advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal > amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft > product. > > -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In Your Computer Today? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I'm using the xsane port which works ok. For best result install the "gimp" port first. The only thing with sane is it only works if you su to root first. Probably has to do with device permissons but I have not investigated further. Good luck Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message