[ALUG] Re: Any Sane experts out there? (cl@isbd.net)

[cl at isbd.net]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:57:57PM +0000, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:53:48PM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> > No kind of expert on anything, but I fixed a similar problem by installing 
> > Epson's own package.  iscan.  Just went in and then sane worked fine.  This 
> > was Mandriva and also Suse, for a 1640.  And another epson at my little 
> > charity.  Without iscan Xsane wouldn't work, with it it went perfectly.
> > 
> That's where I started from, iscan said it couldn't see a scanner.
> 
Digging further xsane *can* see my scanner, this is getting silly!
Maybe running sane-troubleshoot has kicked something into life
somewhere.  No, scanimage still claims that I have no Sane devices
whereas xsane recognises both my HP all-in-one and the Epson.

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Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)