Power Developer :: SCSI Scanner in Debian

Originally posted by Everblue:

I have a SCSI scanner AGFA Snapscan 1236s which I am sure is compatable with Linux. I have installed XSane but it does not detect the scanner. When I run LSPCI in a terminal, my SCSI card (Symbios Logic) is detected, but I am not sure it is 'installed' automatically by Debian.

When I run lsmod it does list a sym53c8xx module and I can see it as well under /proc/scsi.
I dont know what I am doing wrong but when I run XSane I get the error "no device available".

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Author:	bbrv [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:31 am ]
Post subject:	SCSI Scanner in Debian
Originally posted by Everblue: I have a SCSI scanner AGFA Snapscan 1236s which I am sure is compatable with Linux. I have installed XSane but it does not detect the scanner. When I run LSPCI in a terminal, my SCSI card (Symbios Logic) is detected, but I am not sure it is 'installed' automatically by Debian. When I run lsmod it does list a sym53c8xx module and I can see it as well under /proc/scsi. I dont know what I am doing wrong but when I run XSane I get the error "no device available". Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any help!

Author:	markos [ Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:44 am ]
Post subject:	Re: SCSI Scanner in Debian
Quote: Originally posted by Everblue: I have a SCSI scanner AGFA Snapscan 1236s which I am sure is compatable with Linux. I have installed XSane but it does not detect the scanner. When I run LSPCI in a terminal, my SCSI card (Symbios Logic) is detected, but I am not sure it is 'installed' automatically by Debian. When I run lsmod it does list a sym53c8xx module and I can see it as well under /proc/scsi. I dont know what I am doing wrong but when I run XSane I get the error "no device available". Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for any help! You should have the package sane-utils installed. In this there is a tool, find-scanner, which you should run to detect your scanner. Assuming you have a /dev/sga or similar device node, then the find-scanner tool should detect your scanner. I found this info, plus more in the link: http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/ Hope that helped Konstantinos

Author:	foockb [ Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:31 am ]
Post subject:	SCSI Scanner in Debian
Hi, You should check the permissions of the device file /dev/sgx that is assigned to your scanner. Run as root the sane-find-scanner command (from the sane-utils package) and it should detect your scanner. Then run the same command as a normal user and if it doesn't detect your scanner, add the read permission for all to the /dev/sgx file. Friendly, Clement

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