I have installed xsane-0.90.tar.gz. Entering "xsane" in a terminal brings up the Xsane End User Licence Agreement, and spends some time 'scanning for devices' - and finally returns: "no devices available".

"sane-find-scanner" and "scanimage -L" also return a no scanner found message.

"modprobe scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=2206" returns an error "modprobe : can't locate module scanner"

This is a new problem since installing xsane - previously the modprobe command worked ok - (entered in su mode)

Ok' please just try "/sbin/modprobe scanner" and see what happens.

/sbin/modprobe scanner did not show any errors (ie the prompt returned).

xsane, sane-find-scanner, and scanimage -L all failed to find a scanner.

Can you do "ls -al /dev/usb/scanner0" and post the output.

crw------- 1 john root 180, 48 Dec 18 09:23 /dev/usb/scanner0

Ok, do "chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner*" and try again with xsane.

"chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner" failed to get attributes - No such file or directory (the current directory is /dev/usb/scanner0)

so I tried "chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner0", xsane failed to find a scanner.

Next I did "mkmod /dev/usb/scanner c 180 48" and "chmod 666 /dev/usb/scanner", and xsane failed to find a scanner.

Next I did "/sbin/modprobe scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=2206", which returned: modprobe : Can't locate module scanner

In the plustek.conf file change the device to /dev/usb/scanner0

Bingo!!!!!

I went back and checked everything we had done, and found a spelling error in the modprobe line added tp /etc/rc.d/rc.local (modprobe spelt modeprobe!). Even so, I would have thought that entering the command as su would have ridden the mis-spelt command(?).

Thank you for your patience Aussie - I am very gratefull - I was getting to the stage of expecting to have to retain the other OS!

Cheers Johng

W00H00!!!!!

Hi Aussie

It would be nice to compliment xsane by adding xsane-gimp to The Gimp. When I attempt to install xsane-gimp-0.89-1mdk.i586.rpm, it fails dependencies:

sane >= 1.0 is needed by xsane-gimp-0.89-1mdk
xsane = 0.89-1mdk is needed by xsane-gimp-0.89-1mdk
libsane.so.1 is needed by xsane-gimp-0.89-1mdk

Since I have installed sane-backends-1.0.9.tar.gz and xsane-0.90.tar.gz, is it safe to ignore the warning and force the install?

And a couple of related questions:
Is this because the RPM package manager does not know about non-rpm installs?
Is it safe to upgrade source installs using rpm's?

Cheers
Johng

Dont bother, just open a terminal and do the following "ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/" Thats all the gimp plugin is, a symlink.
Yes.
It may work and it may not. I wouldn't recomend it.

I tried that but it could not find "file or directory".

I have /usr/bin/gimp (executable) and /usr/bin/gimp-1.2(executable), and there is /etc/gimp/1.2 with six (text) files.

So I created a directory /etc/gimp/1.2/plug-ins and ececuted "ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane /etc/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/" (which added xsane (executable) to the plug-ins directory).

But gimp still only has "screen shot" as an acquire option.

"ln -s /usr/local/bin/xsane ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/", notice the period before .gimp-1.2/plugins/? It's a hidden directory in your home, the ~ is bash shorthand for current users home directory. Copy and paste this into a term,

I did do the original command with the "." and got the "no file or directory" error. Further looking reveals there was no "plug-ins" directory under ~/.gimp

I have now created one, and re-issued the command, and now there is the xsane file in the /plug-ins directory - but gimp still does not have scanner in the "File-Aquire- option.

cheers