Re: [SLE] scanner Umax 2200 not found

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Steve Sheriff wrote:

> Can't figure out:
>
> 1. Where does our output go? locate out.pnm gives me nothing.
>

locate can not find it until the database for locate is not updated.
Use
    find / -name "out.pnm"

> 2. I can't scan under a user other than root (permissions?)
>

use "find-scanner" to find out the name of the device file where the scanner
is connected (something like /dev/sga, not /dev/scanner) and change the
permissions of that file so you have read and write access.
Be carefull, if you enable write access for a harddisk you may loose all your data!

> 3. Doesn't appear under gimp (ln -s command somewhere?)
>

man xscanimage

>
> with xscanimage I get:
>
> [umax] WARNING : UMAX scanner Astra 2200 version 2.1 on device /dev/sga is
> currently an unrecognised device but enquiry seems to be O.K. CONTINUE WITH
> CAUTION
>

Use the recent sane version (1.0.2)

Bye
Oliver

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