Jay Hill wrote:
>
> Pamela Akazawa wrote:
> >
> > I now have my scanner connected and working with xscanimage. Is there a
> > way to aquire an image from within Gimp?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pam
> >
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> This was posted here a few weeks ago:
>
> You should compile xsane with the gimp version you use.
> - uninstall/remove gimp-1.1.19 and xsane
> - remove ~/.gimp-1.1
> - install gimp-1.1.14
> - call ldconfig (as root)
> - xsane:
> make distclean
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> set new ling for xsane to gimp plugin-direcory
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
Hi,
I have xsane working with 1.1.19 and also have 1.0.4
on the same machine. It turned out that way because
I already had 1.0.4 loaded in with my Slack 7.0 distro and
I could use either version of GIMP with no problem. Please
note: I could use either version alone WITHOUT xsane.
I was not trying to scan with either GIMP version.
To get 1.1.19 (not 1.0.4) to work with xsane I did the
following:
I found if I moved all the 1.0.4 libraries in
/usr/lib to a temporary directory I could get Xsane to
build. I only moved the files that had a name like
libgimp 1.0.4 and such. There are about ten of those in
/usr/local. Of course one must have already had a
successful install of sane-1.0.2 but xsane .57, .58 and
.59 all built O.K. for me. I then created a newuser as
I usually run as root and setup the GIMP 1.1.19 under
this user to avoid the root issues.
I had more trouble figuring out the device permissions
for my H-P 6300C scsi scanner. Find-scanner when root
run said it was at /dev/sgc and /dev/sg3. When run as
a user it gave me the root disclaimer and said it was
at /dev/sg2. To make long story short xsane didn't work
properly until I did the link to /dev/scanner with /dev/sgc
and did a chmod 777 /dev/sgc. I did the usual link to the
~/gimp-1.1/plug-ins directory and 1.1.19 works with xsane.
Please note that I put the libgimp 1.0.4 files back
into the /usr/lib and I can run GIMP 1.0.4 ALONE. I went
ahead and tried to do a link to xsane and as expected
it wouldn't work. The reason is that when built, xsane
used the 1.1.19 libraries so I think one can get either
one to work this way but I do not have the skills to
figure out how to be able to link both GIMPS at the same time
nor do I desire to.
I basically did this out of necessity as I didn't want
to go foraging through the files to try to unload one
of my preexisting GIMPS. As it turned out, I got sick
and tired of getting low on disk space so I swapped out
my 4.3gb Cheetah drive and got an 18.2gb 7200rpm fujitsu
drive from www.compgeeks.com for $249.00! I spent $800.00
3 years ago for the Cheetah drive. Now I had to do
a clean install but I eliminated alot of useless files
cluttering up the system.
Best regards,
Kurt Savegnago
ksaves2@theramp.net
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