Re: [PLUG] HELP with /dev/scanner not working

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@netaxs.com>]

Was /dev/sga a logical device, or is your scanner a real SCSI scanner?

You need to have SCSI Generic support compiled into the kernel

If /dev/sga is a usb scanner, under the usb portion of the kernel
compile.  

If the scanner is a parallel port device look under the parallel port
devices.  Also I think that you need to have CONFIG_PPDEV: (Support for
user space parallel port drivers) configured under Character devices.

What all of this boils down to is what type of scayou have.

Rupert Heesom wrote:
> 
> After upgrading my RH6.2 to 7, and upgrading to kernel 2.4.3, I now find
> that, although I have the device files of /dev/scanner (which points to)
> /dev/sga, my xsane software can't find any scanner device!!
> 
> It MAY be to do with how I compiled my 2.4 kernel, because I also found
> that my printing didn't work, after leaving the parallel port support
> out of the compiled kernel & having to uninstall LPRng, and reinstall
> CUPS.
> 
> I've tried to find a kernel setting for a scanner, but can't.
> 
> I've also looked at the permissions of /dev/scanner and /dev/sga.  I've
> added them into the "scanner" group of which I'm a member, but the sane
> programs are not a member.
> 
> What else can I look at ???  I've come to the end of my knowledge, and
> still have not got my scanner up and running again !!!
> 
> Thanks for any help from all you gurus !!!
> 
> --
> regs
> rupert
> 
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