Re: Need help about scanner (2.6.2-mm1)

[Azog <slashmail@arnor.net>]

Thank you so much for the tip!  This seems to have solved my problem
too.

I changed my epson.conf file to just say
"usb"
instead of
"usb /dev/usb/scanner0"

and now, finally, it works.  I do hope the SANE documentation writers
get around to adding that little tidbit of info SOMEWHERE,  I was
tearing my hair out and rebooting back to 2.4 to use my scanner.  

Also, now that usb-scanner.ko is gone, a paragraph of help in the 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt
file would be a great thing as well.


On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 20:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2004 20:58, Steve Kieu wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >Your help saved me lot of headache :-)
> 
> Thanks for the flowers.
> 
> > --- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote: >
> >On Friday 06 February 2004 18:57, Steve Kieu
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> >> Take any device paths out of
> >> the /usr/local/etc/saned/nameofyourscanner.dll
> >
> >just .conf ; not dll :-)
> 
> Can I plead alzheimers or something?  Working with ancient grey matter 
> here.  Its working on the 70th trip around our star. :-)
> 
> >> leaving only a single [usb] as a specifier unless
> >
> >Yes it saved me. It work now. Why no other sane
> >documentation said like yours? I think people at sane
> >project should take your point to add to their
> >documentation.
> 
> I don't ATM recall exactly where I first heard or read about this.
> 
> Maybe in the libusb docs?  No, not a thing, even clear back up to the 
> root dir of the libusb archive.  Maybe I got it from the sane list?
> 
> In any event, thats too damned hard to find and if the libusb author 
> is copying the mail here, that little detail really should be added 
> to the README and/or INSTALL.libusb raw text files, or to a FAQ on 
> the libusb website, the quicker of the two alternatives if this 
> version of the library is stable (and it seems so to me).
> 
> The authors doc/html files are quite complete, I just read them all, 
> but they attack *only* the api the programmer would use, and the 
> actual non-programming user who just wants to use his scanner with 
> this new-fangled system gets hung out to dry.  This question gets 
> asked, and answered the same way, many times on the sane list too.
> 
> It may have been added to the sane-backend docs in a recent version, 
> I'm at least one version out of date here, not being inclined to "fix 
> something thats not broken" at my home site. :-)
> 
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