From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Dec 9 6:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971FE37B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 06:20:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.231.240]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:20:02 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fB9EKRl02144; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:20:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:20:27 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: "Paul '" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scanner detection difficulties Message-ID: <20011209092026.A1962@nc.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from smak_420@hotmail.com on Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:13:15PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul ': |i have x-sane installed but whenever i attempt to start the program it |cannot detect my scanner. | |its a plustek parallel desktop scanner and is supposed to be supported by |xsane (according to their documentation).. | |unfortunatly i dont see any means to specify the scanner or modigy config |files of any sorts.. | |anyone have an idea? I don't know how much of this translates for your situation (Parallel vs. SCSI, and a diff scanner), but here's what I do when installing SANE for my SCSI Microtek E6 scanner: > /usr/local/etc/sane.d > mkdir ORIG > cp -p microtek.conf ORIG > and what results: > cat ORIG/microtek.conf # Uncomment following line to disable "real calibration" routines... #norealcal # Uncomment following line to disable "clever precalibration" routines... #noprecal # Using "norealcal" will revert backend to pre-0.11.0 calibration code. scsi * * Scanner /dev/scanner > cat microtek.conf #Uncomment following line to disable "clever precalibration" routines... noprecal scsi * * Scanner /dev/pass1 This is also relevent: > ls -l /dev/pass1 crw-rw---- 1 root operator 31, 1 Feb 25 2001 /dev/pass1 and I am in group "operator" (i.e. sane has write permission to the scanner when running as me). Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message