scanner issues

[Kim Briggs]

On 1/1/06, Serg B. <serg.belokamen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to get my scanner working.
>
> sane-find-scanner seems to detect the scanner:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a5 [Color], product=0x20b0
> [ FlatbedScanner 22]) at libusb:003:006
>
>
> When I open "Kooka" i am prompted with "Select scanner Device" Dialog
> that also detects the scanner (and pre-selects it since its the only
> one). However when I click "OK" Kooka (or Gimp) I get an error message
> along the lines of:
>
> "Problem: No scanner Found"
> Your system does not provide a SANE installation, which is required by
> the KDE scan support.
>
> Also have the following pkg's installed:
...
>
> And driver from CD in /etc/sane.d directory and edited snapscan.conf
> file with extra line (in relevant section):
>
> firmware /etc/sane.d/u176v046.bin
>
> But I still get the damn error. Anyone...?
>
>    Thanks,
>       Serg
>
>
Hi Serg,

Not sure I'm reading this right.  Did you get a linux driver on a CD
with your scanner?  What company is doing this?  I went backwards from
the sane website and made sure I ordered a scanner (albeit used) that
was "fully supported".  Even after that, I tried using Kooka under
Suse linux and the program crashed every time.  When I use Xsane,
there is no problem.  I know of nothing that I did differently.

So, you could try Xsane...?

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