Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:58:15 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to get an HP Scanjet to work (again). Message-ID: <199904210758.AAA00837@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:13:38 PDT." <13548.924678818@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Good glad that you managed to locate the sane configuration directory .
The file that you need to modify is :
/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf
If you like to know more about it see:
man sane-dll
If you want to know about sane support for your HP scanners see:
man sane-hp
In your case configure sane like this:
---------------------
/usr/local/etc/sane.d:/dll.conf
hp
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/usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf
/dev/pass2
In my case, I have :
cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf
umax
cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf
/dev/pass1
If you need to know about xscanimage for instance how to use sane
with gimp:
man xscanimage:
RUNNING UNDER THE GIMP
To run xscanimage under the gimp(1), simply copy it to one
of the gimp(1) plug-ins directories. If you want to con-
serve disk-space, you can create a symlink instead. For
example, the command
ln -s /usr/local/bin/xscanimage ~/.gimp/plug-ins/
adds a symlink for the xscanimage binary to the user's
plug-ins directory. After creating this symlink, xscanim-
age will be queried by gimp(1) the next time it's invoked.
From then on, xscanimage can be invoked through
"Xtns->Acquire Image->Device dialog..." menu entry.
You'll also find that the "Xtns->Acquire Image" menu con-
tains short-cuts to the SANE devices that were available
at the time the xscanimage was queried. For example, the
first PNM pseudo-device is typically available as the
short-cut "Xtns->Acquire Image->pnm:0". Note that gimp(1)
caches these short-cuts in ~/.gimp/pluginrc. Thus, when
the list of available devices changes (e.g., a new scanner
is installed), then it is typically desirable to rebuild
this cache. To do this, you can either touch(1) the
xscanimage binary (e.g., "touch /usr/local/bin/xscanim-
age") or delete the plug-ins cache (e.g., "rm
~/.gimp/plug-ins"). Either way, invoking gimp(1)
Here is the nice Web pointer to the SANE project:
http://panda.mostang.com/sane/
A side note with respect to the FreeBSD scsi api,
the last time that I checked your pass<number>
devices must be named "pass" that is if I create
a device node : mknod foo c 31 3 which in
my case is my scsi scanner the scsi library
will fail to access my scsi scanner.
Last but not least gimp/sane with my umax scsi scanner works
wonderfully over here and since you well pointed it out you
can access sane over the network which I have done
in the past over here.
If sane still does not work for you , don't hesitate to e-mail
> > If aint there then do :
> >
> > find /usr/local -name saned.conf
>
> OK, I found /usr/local/etc/sane.d and it contains a bunch of files,
> but there's no indication of how it finds which scanner you want to
> use and saned.conf appears to contain network permissions info and
> nothing more. How would gimp even know I had an HP scanner, for
> example? Of course, there's no real docs for this feature of the gimp
> and reading sane-scsi(5), sane-hp(5) and other related man pages gives
> no indication of this at all. There doesn't appear to be any
> configuration file for *local* access at all - saned appears to be for
> allowing remote access, which is not really what I need at all.
>
> Oh well, so much for that idea. :)
>
> - Jordan
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Amancio Hasty
hasty@star-gate.com
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