Re: Scanners in Debian

[Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@netpci.com>]

I  just installed a Microtek X6EL, then xsane, sane, and gimp.  That's
all I had to do and this scanner was running.

Oh, there were a couple of rough spots.

First I had to recompile the kernel with scsi generic support.

THen I had to run MAKEDEV in /dev to get /dev/sgX.  (Why weren't they
there?)

Then I ran 

     scanimage --list-devices

After that, the device has been identified and detected.  

Almost magical, if you ask me.  

Alan Davis


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