On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:38:40 +0200, Matthew <ecd centurytel.net> wrote:
> m. allan noah wrote:
>> what? the other day you were running ubuntu with
sane compiled from
>> source, and now you are running suse's resmgr
enabled sane rpm?
>>
>> i am confused
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Matthew wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the help, but I finally figured it
out.
>>>
>>> The information I found was located here:
>>> http://support.novell.com/techc
enter/sdb/en/2005/09/jsmeix_scanner-setup-100.html
>>>
>>>
>>> It's for Suse and I'm not sure it will
provide much help to anyone not
>>> running suse, but you can always give it a go.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> Sorry about that. I've been back and forth between
Ubuntu and Suse
> (SLED).
>
> The story. I started with Ubuntu because I liked
Ubuntu. However for
> what ever reason I could not get sane to install on
Ubuntu. Was always
> getting this message about libsane.so.1 being locked by
ubuntu and
> couldn't be overwritten. Well, I had access to SLED
and having a
> Netware network, I decided to install SLED. I was able
to install sane
> and got it to work once, but I had no TIFF support
(don't ask I have
> absolutely no idea what I did). I tried for a full day
to get it to
> work with tiff support, but failed miserably.
>
> The next day I came in and turned on the computer and
all it did was
> restart (found out later that it was because the
scanner was on and
> plugged in, a problems now solved as well). So I
reinstalled SLED and
> then proceeded to reinstall the latest version of sane
via the source
> code. This time I got everything working as long as I
was in root. I
> new it was a permission thing, but couldn't figure it
out. I also had
> some other problems and by the end of that day I was so
frustrated with
> SLED that I gave up and went back to Ubuntu.
>
> This time I was able to install sane. Of course I was
having the same
> permission problems as before and I couldn't find
anything that helped
> me fix it. Hence I came here for support. Of course
it took a good day
> to get my question posted here due to permission and
what not. By then
> I was getting so frustrated that I was about to dump
Linux and go back
> to Windows only (all over sane).
>
> In the interim I decide to give SLED one last chance
feeling that I was
> never going to get this thing to work. However I never
like to just
> give up. So I reinstalled SLED and went about setting
it all up. That
> when I found that little page that explained why I
couldn't get it to
> work. Followed those instruction and it all worked
flawlessly. No more
> I/O errors. No need to be in root. No more bad boots
with the scanner
> turned on. It all just worked.
>
> So there it is. Sorry for the confusion. When I
originally posted the
> question I was back to Ubuntu and would have stayed
with Ubuntu, but my
> frustration was pushing me back toward Windows. If I
hadn't decided to
> give SLED one more chance I would be using Windows
right now.
>
> At any rate I do thank you for your help and I do
apologize for the
> confusion of my switching back and forth between Ubuntu
and SLED.
> Unless something else causes me problems I will be
sticking with SLED as
> it integrates well with my Netware and Windows network.
>
> Matthew
>
>
A rather brute method to get things working. But it happens
more often
than one should think. And in many cases without a happy
end.
Less persisitant users than Matthew will give up, frustrated
switch back
to windows and that will also be the end of the whole
Linux-experiment.
Ironically only a minority of not working scanners is caused
by SANE. The
much bigger portion is due to an improper rights management
of the
underlying distribution. So the question is, if SANE
shouldn't come with
an own installer to set the things right.
Furhermore it could of considerable benefit to have a kind
of repository
within the SANE-website of firmware-files for the scanners
which need them
(driver-CDs invariably tend to get lost, and a parallel
windows-installation can't be taken for granted on modern
Linux-boxes any
longer).
Btw even under XP by far not all scanners behave as they
shall do -
especially MFDs and ADF-scanner malfunction up to a total
failure in
considerable numbers. But then you are really running on
empty since there
is nothing comparable as the excellent SANE-documentation or
a highly
qualified mailing-list like this one.
--
Wolfram Heider
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