Re: Kooka Broken in Lenny?
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:52:14 +1100
Irena & Richard Jenkins <richard.jenkins@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Tried Kooka on my desktop this afternoon ... but it could not find my scanner.
> (Canoscan N650U). Tried installing xsane then ... and it too complained
> about my missing scanner. Tried a new cable with no effect.
>
> Took the scanner across to my old laptop running 'puppylinux' (a 100 Meg linux
> for older machines of the x86 variety). On this machine the same scanner and
> cable worked faultlessly!
>
> Is it a permissions problem? That was a suggestion from xsane ... and
> puppylinux runs as 'root' so avoiding all these issues. Of course I would
> never recommend running as 'root' ...
>
> Anyone beat this problem with Lenny??
When you plug in the scanner type 'dmesg' see if the kernel in Lenny
detects it. Try the same in puppy linux and match the output. If the
kernel in lenny doesn't detect the scanner then there is nothing Kooka
or even xsane can do about it.
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