https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=337816 Summary: More explanatory text for iscan-proprietary-drivers on x86_64 Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: unspecified Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: jsmeix@novell.com ReportedBy: jsmeix@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Currently YaST shows only this vague information ---------------------------------------------------------- The package iscan should be installed but it contains proprietary binary-only i386-only software. Therefore it is only available for i386-compatible architectures and it may cause problems on AMD 64-bit (x86_64) systems. ---------------------------------------------------------- which lets users think it may work. Actually it cannot work with any 64-bit scanning frontend. Reason: 1. A scanning frontend links with the SANE library libsane.so which is in fact the dll pseudo-driver. 2. The dll pseudo-driver dlopen()s the other drivers which is here the epkowa driver. 3. In this particular case the epkowa driver needs a proprietary 32-bit-only library to operate the scanner. Therefore on a 64-bit system: If one runs a 64-bit scanning frontend (e.g. the 64-bit version of scanimage, xscanimage, xsane, or kooka) then it links with the 64-bit version of libsane.so.1 which again links with the 64-bit version of the epkowa driver which then fails to link with a 64-bit version of the proprietary library because there is only a 32-bit version of these library. In contrast on a 32-bit system: If one runs a 32-bit scanning frontend (e.g. the 32-bit versions of scanimage, xscanimage, xsane , or kooka) then it links with the 32-bit version of libsane.so.1 which again links with the 32-bit version of the epkowa driver which then can link with the 32-bit version of the proprietary library so that your scanner works. Summary: It should work if one installs on a 64-bit system the full scanning software only as 32-bit software. Alternatively one cane use only the Iscan frontend "iscan" (from the 32-bit Iscan packages) on a 64-bit system (i.e. one cannot use the 64-bit versions of scanimage, xscanimage, xsane , or kooka). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.