Re: scanner/sane/SCSI problem
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Martin wrote:
> > I am setting up an old Ultra 1 as a scanner machine, and I have had
> > some problems making sane connect to the SCSI-scanner. I have tried
> > two different kernels, 2.2.20 and 2.4.17, both compiled with
> > make-kpkg. It works only with the older kernel.
> <snip>
> > rosalia:~# uname -a
> > Linux rosalia 2.4.17 #1 Mon Nov 17 19:09:40 CET 2003 sparc64 unknown
> <snip>
> > rosalia:~# sane-find-scanner
> > # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> > # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
> > # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
> > # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
> > # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.
> >
> > rosalia:~#
>
> I had a similar problem with an HP ScanJet 5 (yes - it does play music)
> from talking to the folks on the SANE mailing lists it seems to be
> something to do with the SCSI drivers on SPARC but I never got further
> than that. 's very interesting that 2.2 works. Sorry I can't be of
> more help.
>
> Cheers,
> - Martin
>
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> Martin
> inkubus@interalpha.co.uk
> "Seasons change, things come to pass"
>
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OK, it's a little help anyway, since I was thinking of sending this to
some SANE people (no pun intended :) ).
/Pontus
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