Re: 2 scanners on startup--have only one

From: Russ Burdick (grub@extrapolation.net)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 15:28:46 PDT

  • Next message: Bob van der Poel: "Re: 2 scanners on startup--have only one"

    if /dev/sg1 and /dev/scanner are both simlinks to /dev/sgb then
    find-scanner and/or xsane will think that those are multiple devices, when
    they all point to the same place (/dev/sgb). have you tried scanning with
    either of the two listed scanners? they should both provide the same
    result and, since it worked before on /dev/sga, it should still work on
    /dev/sgb. hope that clears things up.

    Russ

    On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Bob van der Poel wrote:
    >
    > Hope this makes sense... I just used to have a scaner in the scsi dept.
    > Recently added an ide-cdburner which needs the fake-scsi stuff to run.
    >
    > Due to this I had to change the scanner scsi device from sga to sgb.
    > Now, I have:
    >
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 13 13:13 scanner -> sgb
    > crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 0 May 5 1998 sga
    > crw-rw---- 1 root scanner 21, 1 May 5 1998 sgb
    >
    > and all works fine. Only problem is that when xsane starts up it lists 2
    > scanners and I have to pick one of them. The 2 it lists are
    >
    > microtek:/dev/scanner
    > microtek:/dev/sgb
    >
    > These are the same devices! Besides, when I had dev/scanner-->sga it
    > never was a problem. Can someone tell me what's going on?
    >
    > Also, find-scanner reports:
    >
    > find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/scanner
    > find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/sg1
    > find-scanner: found scanner " Scanner 1.80" at device /dev/sgb
    >
    > I'm not sure what the sg[0-9] entries are for, but they are links to
    > sg[a-h].
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    >

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