Comments on: Is it Spring Already? http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2008/11/08/is-it-spring-already/ Stuff, stuff and more stuff Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: khk http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2008/11/08/is-it-spring-already/comment-page-1/#comment-234 khk Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:44:54 +0000 http://khk.net/wordpress/?p=199#comment-234 Not quite the comment that I expected... I sent you a reply about your Sane problem via email. Not quite the comment that I expected… I sent you a reply about your Sane problem via email.

]]> By: George Herzog http://www.khk.net/wordpress/2008/11/08/is-it-spring-already/comment-page-1/#comment-233 George Herzog Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:39:48 +0000 http://khk.net/wordpress/?p=199#comment-233 I was born in Rochester, grew up in Sea Breeze when it had it's own post office and was a registered sea plane base. I recently did a urpmi.update and now I cannot use my epson perfection 1640su scanner. I have only one of each: libsane1, sane backends, and xsane installed. The scanner was always detected and worked well before the update. any assistance will be very much appreciated. [george@localhost ~]$ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x010a) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. [george@localhost ~]$ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation [george@localhost ~]$ lsusb bash: lsusb: command not found [george@localhost ~]$ scanimage -f scanimage: no SANE devices found [george@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsusb bash: /sbin/lsusb: No such file or directory [root@localhost george]# lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:010a Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1640SU Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 047d:102d Kensington Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 when I turn on the scanner the icon appears on the desktop with the following: Xsane/proc/bus/usb/002/002 [george@localhost ~]$ scanimage scanimage: no SANE devices found [george@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost george]# scanimage P4 # SANE data follows 424 585 @=���W��@@�"e����@�Bl����"@`<��! I figured out how to use kde as root. there were some dire warnings, so I did not persist any farther than to see that all of the proper epson scanner control panels did, indeed, appear when scanimage was run as root. Will you help to show me how to change permissions? Thank you. Respectfully yours, George Herzog I was born in Rochester, grew up in Sea Breeze when it had it’s own post office and was a registered sea plane base.
I recently did a urpmi.update and now I cannot use my epson perfection 1640su scanner. I have only one of each: libsane1, sane backends, and xsane installed. The scanner was always detected and worked well before the update. any assistance will be very much appreciated.
[george@localhost ~]$ sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0×04b8, product=0×010a) at libusb:002:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend’s manpage.

[george@localhost ~]$ scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation

[george@localhost ~]$ lsusb
bash: lsusb: command not found

[george@localhost ~]$ scanimage -f
scanimage: no SANE devices found

[george@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsusb
bash: /sbin/lsusb: No such file or directory

[root@localhost george]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:010a Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1640SU
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 047d:102d Kensington
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

when I turn on the scanner the icon appears on the desktop with the following:
Xsane/proc/bus/usb/002/002

[george@localhost ~]$ scanimage
scanimage: no SANE devices found
[george@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost george]# scanimage
P4
# SANE data follows
424 585
@=���W��@@�”e����@�Bl����”@`<��!

I figured out how to use kde as root. there were some dire warnings, so I did not persist any farther than to see that all of the proper epson scanner control panels did, indeed, appear when scanimage was run as root.
Will you help to show me how to change permissions?
Thank you.
Respectfully yours,
George Herzog

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