Hello, On Mar 5 20:00 Stan Goodman wrote (excerpt):
Why is YaST not showing it to me?
YaST shows you what there is in the SANE *.desc description files, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners YaST uses the SANE *.desc description files as authoritative source of information. YaST does not and cannot have any kind of magic "better" knowledge which drivers work in which way for which models than what is listed in the SANE *.desc description files. In the *.desc description files on my openSUSE 11.3 system there is "Epson Perfection 640U" listed for the drivers epson2 and epkowa but "Epson Perfection 640" (without the 'U') listed for the driver epson and YaST on my openSUSE 11.3 system shows it exactly this way. You should use the "Search String" in YaST to find such entries, read the help text in YaST. It is a know issue that same devices could be listed in different *.desc description files with different model names like "Epson Perfection 640U" versus "Epson Perfection 640". Both seem to be same devices because their USB IDs are same. But it is also known that not all devices wich have same USB IDs are actually the same hardware. Furthermore not for all USB scanners their USB IDs are listed in the SANE *.desc description files. In the end it is currently not possible to rely on the USB IDs to determine in an automated way which models are same devices. As long as same devices could be listed different in different SANE *.desc description files and as long as not all USB scanners have their USB IDs listed, the user must search manually and try to find out which drivers seem to belong to his model. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org