On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:05 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> Paul Howarth wrote: > >> > >> > > > > Looks like I've been barking up the wrong tree. It seems that USB > > scanner support doesn't use udev at all. > > > > According to http://www.exactcode.de/oss/avision/index.html the > > "avision" backend should provide at least limited functionality for > > your scanner. See "man sane-avision" for details (you'll need to have > > the sane-backends package installed). > > > > P.S. Please don't post HTML to this mailing list. > > > > Paul. > > > I am using Thunderbird 1.0.2 and it is set to send plain text > to domain redhat.com, should never send html? It usually asks > me to ok sending html. However I have recently been afflicted > with a severe vision problem and may have hit the wrong button. > That's the reason for the scanner, I need to enlarge printed > pages to read text! > > I found the following data in /var/log/dmesg, still can't get xsane > to recognize the scanner, no device? > > I tried creating /dev/sg0 and making an entry in fstab but to no avail > there ... You need neither. The scanner should work with libusb, which doesn't use /dev entries. You are using Fedora Core 3, aren't you? Did you look at "man sane-avision"? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
