[ale] configure xsane & usb scanner

[Geoffrey]

Chris, I've got a spare box here I'm going to slap RH 8 on and see if I 
can figure out your problem.  For now, post the output of '/sbin/lsmod' 
so we can see what modules are/aren't loaded.

My scanner is an hp 5200c.

Christopher Russell wrote:
> Hi, hope that someone out there can help.
> PROBLEM: installing USB Scanner; Cannot get the xsane 'frontend' to see
> the xsane 'backend.'
> 
> How do I manually configure the scanner?
> 
> SPECIFICATION:
> USB HP ScanJet 6200C, RH_8.0 kernel 2.4.18-27; w/ xsane v0.90 frontend
> and xsane v1.0.11 backend, (latest version).
>  
> BACKGROUND:
> When I run xsane gui, (GNOMEmenu>graphics>Scanning), xsane frontend
> launches and runs a device search, which fails. Help says possible
> "backend not loaded" or "not configured." 
> 
> WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR:
> Read the man pages, but am now confused -but did these tests:
> [chris at cedar sane-1.0.11]$ scanimage -L
> device `hp:/dev/usb/scanner0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 62x0C flatbed
> scanner
> [chris at cedar chris]$
> 
> - so we know the device is there!
> 
> [chris at cedar chris]$ scanimage \-d test
> P5
> # SANE data follows
> 157 196 255
> [chris at cedar chris]$
> 
> - these numbers apparently indicate a test response, but I've no idea
> what they mean!
> 
> QUESTION SUMMARY:
> The device is there, the driver for my model of scanner is within the
> dll library, I looked, but something's not right.
> 
> All advice appreciated, thanks in advance,
> Chris
> 
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