[wellylug] Xsane no longer recognising scanner

Colin & Josephine Lewis cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz
Fri Mar 2 17:16:56 NZDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:51 +1300, Centurion Computer Technology (2005)
Ltd wrote:
> Colin,
> 
> Try opening a root terminal and running scanimage -L and let me know
> what it says.
> 
I get the response "scanimage: command not found"

Colin

> 
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 16:23 +1300, Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:
> > I have regularly been using xSane to access my Epson stylus CX3500
> > multi-function printer's scanning mode with 100% success.  Today when I
> > went to use it however, I get the error message "no devices available".
> > This is despite my printer being switched on and able to used in printer
> > mode.  I looked in the xSane man page, but it does not appear to offer
> > any options for manually selecting my scanner.  Any ideas as to what I
> > should be doing next to get this working again?  This is all running
> > under Debian.
> > 
> > many thanks
> > 
> > Colin Lewis
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> Daniel Reurich
> 
> Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Limited.
> Ph: 021 797 722
> 
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