SUSE 8.2 can't set up recognized scanner
Greetings, I have installed SUSE 8.2 professional on an IBM T21 laptop. I have an UMAX Astra 610S scanner connected through ADAPTEC SCSI PCMCIA card. The card works, cdrecord -scanbus says: scsibus0: 0,3,0 3) removable JAZ disk 0,5,0 5) UMAX ASTRA 610 S scanner sane-find-scanner says: found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 610S V1.3" at /dev/sg1 that device, however, is accessible only to root, and there is also no link to /dev/scanner. The result is that neither Kooka nor the GIMP can see the device. I know how to fix things manually, ie making links, changing permissions, establishing groups, and so on. My actual questions are: why didn't SUSE fix all this by itself (Red Hat 9 on the same box did, I could scan as normal user from the GIMP right away) Is there a SUSE GUI based way to "install" the scanner for normal users? Something which I can recomend to nebies coming to Linux for the first time? TIA, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:14, M. Fioretti wrote:
Greetings,
I have installed SUSE 8.2 professional on an IBM T21 laptop. I have an UMAX Astra 610S scanner connected through ADAPTEC SCSI PCMCIA card.
The card works, cdrecord -scanbus says: scsibus0:
0,3,0 3) removable JAZ disk
0,5,0 5) UMAX ASTRA 610 S scanner
sane-find-scanner says: found SCSI scanner "UMAX Astra 610S V1.3" at /dev/sg1
that device, however, is accessible only to root, and there is also no link to /dev/scanner.
The result is that neither Kooka nor the GIMP can see the device. I know how to fix things manually, ie making links, changing permissions, establishing groups, and so on.
My actual questions are:
why didn't SUSE fix all this by itself (Red Hat 9 on the same box did, I could scan as normal user from the GIMP right away)
Is there a SUSE GUI based way to "install" the scanner for normal users? Something which I can recomend to nebies coming to Linux for the first time?
TIA, Marco Fioretti
-- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
SuSE 8.2 found ASTRA 610S just fine. However, it didn't fix the permissions until the first time that I rebooted after configuring it with YaST2. When I run sane-find-scanner, I get exactly the same message you got, but I am using a desktop machine with an Adaptec card to drive it. -- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 07:40:20 at 07:40:20AM -0500, Kelly Fulks (kfulks@knology.net) wrote:
SuSE 8.2 found ASTRA 610S just fine. However, it didn't fix the permissions until the first time that I rebooted after configuring it with YaST2. When I run sane-find-scanner, I get exactly the same message you got, but I am using a desktop machine with an Adaptec card to drive it.
I had to disinstall SUSE from that laptop for other reasons. However, I am sure that it didn't even create the link /dev/scanner, and almost 100% sure that reboot did not fix the problem. I will check, of course, if I have the possibility to put SUSE back again. Thanks! Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. -- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
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