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Re: Problem ScanJet/2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boris Tobotras)
Tue Jun 10 08:26:37 1997
To: rodgerd@ihug.co.nz
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:21:14 +0400
From: Boris Tobotras <tobotras@jet.msk.su>
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:06:02 +1200, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
> The scanner itself works-I went through the pain of loading Windows and
> the software, and it ran just fine.
>
> So far, so good. The problem comes when I actually try to use it under
> linux. Using the xscanimage suite, it complains that opening the device
> failed. If I try to use scsi_info on any sg* device, I get a permission
> violation, regardless of whether I try the drives or the scanner. I
> recreated the /dev/sg* entries (c, major 21) to be sure they were OK.
> I've tried as root as well as a user. No dice.
>
> I'm tearing my hair out-I feel certain I've missed something very
> obvious, but after a week searching the HOWTOs and the LDP, I can't find
> *anything*; the documentation assures me there should be no problems.
Get hpscanpbm program. Works nicely with our ScanJet-II.
--
Best regards, -- Boris.
