Kemdi Anyamele wrote: <snip>
Hello Dave and All,
$40.00 ? Phew !! Not bad , if the scanner is new. Welldone.
Naw, its a refurbished unit with only a 90 day warrenty, but for $40 how can you go wrong.
Now, about the configuration of this baby. Please do , at least for now, comment out the entry for the umax2200 in your /etc/fstab. The entry is the cause of the message you get on boot-up.
Done
Did you make the /dev/umax2200 yourself ?
Yes, via right click | create new | directory. I think this works properly.
Bear in mind, that you need generic SCSI support, not SCSI emulation, as I previosly purported in a previous answer, enabled in the kernel to get the scanner to show up as a /dev/sg* i.e a character device. Try running >> "cdrecord -scanbus" without the quotes , as root. Does it show up ?
yes, as follows: linux sg driver version 3.1.17 using libscg version schily-0.1 scsibus0 . . . 0,3,0 3) 'UMAX Astra2200 V2.3 Scanner . . .
I'm assuming, of course, that you're running SuSE on full throttle, with most of the packages, in place. An easy graphical way of finding out ,is to call up KDE/SuSE Control > > System >> Linux Kernel Configurator
Open up the SCSI Support sub-menu.
I must be doing something wrong as I can't get this. Selecting KDE | Control Center | System | I get only two options which are Date & Time and Login Manager. Am I selecting the wrong options?
Hopefully, SCSI generic support is enabled. If not, oh well......., time to recompile that kernel, I think.
Once in place, you can access the scanner through other programs, such as xsane, Gimp, OpenOffice and so on. Hey even commandline.
The GIMP says "Error: xsane: no devices available" And that's about all the further I've ben able to go so far.
David !! Take you time. We'll wait .
dave