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Re: installing scanner



On Saturday 26 January 2008 12:51, Seb wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:36:31 -0600,
> C M Reinehr <cmr@amsent.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Seb,
> >
> > Have you checked out the SANE website and verified your SANE
> > configuration?  The supported hardware database shows that the Pixma
> > MP150 works "Good".
>
> Thanks, indeed both the printer and scanner parts of this machine used
> to work fine in my current system, albeit on a previous install (I had
> to reinstall everything not long ago).  However, I cannot trace back
> what I did to get it working.  For now, I have the printer working fine
> through CUPS, but don't know what needs to be done to set the scanner
> up.  Does the scanner need to be added to some server (a la CUPS)?  I've
> added my user to the 'scanner' and 'saned' groups, but still no luck.
>
>
> --
> Seb

Have you reviewed the steps under Problems in the Sane(7) manual page? Have 
you checked your configuration file (under Debian they are in /etc/sane.d)?

cmr

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