[wellylug] Xsane no longer recognising scanner

[Colin & Josephine Lewis]

Ah, it all now works just like it did before.  Many thanks Daniel and I
now know a bit more about how to fix my own problems in the future

Colin


On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 17:53 +1300, Centurion Computer Technology (2005)
Ltd wrote:
> 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
> 
>