xsane/gimp scanning problems

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

I just hooked up my scanner(USB UMAX Astra 3400) with xsane. It works great under root but as soon as I try to run xsane as a normal user it dosnt detect any scanners. Im pretty sure its just a permission problem in /dev but theres no devices that seem like its the scanner. I do not have a /dev/scanner(s) and I only have lp0 in /dev/usb. sane-find-scanners gives me

found USB scanner (vendor=0x1606 [UMAX], product=0x0060 [USB SCANNER], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:001:016

Could someone tell me the device to change permissions for?

I run gimp-2.0-pre3 and the sane plugin for gimp does not seem to work with it. The plugin was put into /usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plugins and I moved it to 1.3 but I got errors from that. Is there anyway to get gimp to use sane?

Thanks

nuke

ronmon · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

My scanner is SCSI, so it shows up as generic device just like a cd burner. I set the permissions in /etc/devfsd.conf using one line that covers the scanner and both cdrws.

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

I can scan directly to gimp now but when I goto scan it says
"Gimp does not support depth 16 bits/color. Do you want to reduce the depth to 8 bits/color? Reduce/Cancel"
I hit reduce and it looks the same is there any disadvange to doing this? Hey jw why isnt this ebuild in portage? It works great. Im going to try the other thing you said tomarrow its kina late and I dont feel like screwing up and asking something stupid.

nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

I just realized something when ever I update my system portage is going to "update" xsane getting rid of your version. Anyway to stop that or could your ebuild be put into portage?

ronmon · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:08 am Post subject:

Submitting ebuilds is an exercise in futility and a waste of time. I have seven in bugzilla right now and only one is getting any attention from the dev's, though users have commented positively regarding most of them.

Check the Portage Manual about setting up a portage overlay directory so optional ebuilds don't get wiped when you sync. The INSTALL file on my page explains it some. Did you read it?

Schnacki · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 105

Gentree · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

It is the device number which changes if the scanner is unplugged and replugged. This is part of hotplugging.

To the system it is a new device, you need to set perms dynamically on plugin. in /etc/hotplug/usb/scanner:

douglas_slac · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Aug 2003 Posts: 89

There has been a few threads on this recently, it became very important with the 2.6.x kernels since the "scanner" kernel mod. doesn't exist anymore. There is an almost fixed support for this and hotplug in sane-backends 1.0.14, and you should give that a try, although it is still '~x86', unstable in the e-build.

But it comes with a hotplug script, and a large list of scanners for hotplug to look for in usb. I found a bug in the hotplug script where it sets the dev. number. There is another thread on that also.