[wellylug] Xsane no longer recognising scanner

Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd daniel at centurion.net.nz
Sat Mar 3 17:53:05 NZDT 2007


then apt-get install sane-utils and try again.

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:16 +1300, Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
-- 
Daniel Reurich

Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Limited.
Ph: 021 797 722




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