Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:43:29 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Define "just works,"
Just what it says. Plug it in and it starts working.
what is your firmware line in snapscan.conf?
There is none. No firmware upload is required for this scanner.
The relevant line in snapscan.conf is this:
# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin
Notice that it hasn't changed from the default as-installed snapscan.conf.
This
would just work if I could get xsane to stop trying to improve it and
use it as is. Do you have/use a firmware update, and if not how did you
ask it not to try to do one?
The issue never came up. I plugged in the scanner, loaded xsane, and started
scanning stuff. That's really all there was to it.
Bizarre, it tells me it can't find a file named
/usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin and to edit the file.
With both FC6 and FC7. I assume you have no such file. I'm sure there's
some undocumented diddle which tells xsane and scanimage not to try to
load any firmware, but there's a limit to how much time it's worth to
find it.
Thanks for the info, if no one has a better idea of why this fails I
will NOT be buying a 4th scanner, I'm just going to write it off as not
ready for prime time and use another O/S.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
