Re: [K12OSN] Scanner setup

["Terrell Prude', Jr." <microman cmosnetworks com>]

Here's how I did it on RHL9, K12LTSP 2.1.2, and Slackware.  It's the 
same procedure for all three.

First, power down your machine and hook up your scanner.  Then reboot.  
This allows Kudzu to detect it.  Once the server's booted and you're in 
the GUI, click Start (well, the GNOME, KDE, or red hat icon, depending 
on your distro version), Run Command, and then enter "xsane".

So, what is this "xsane"?

SANE, which is an acronym for Scanner Access Now Easy, is a back end 
piece of software that knows how to talk to SCSI and (most) USB 
scanners.  The cmd line for SANE, while very powerful, is kinda ugly, so 
someone came up w/ a slick front end to it and called it XSane.  Reminds 
me a lot of the UMAX scanner software for 32-bit Windows. 

Anyhoo, after you do the above, XSane will come up and present you with 
a device or devices to choose from.  In my case (a UMAX 2100 SCSI 
device), it gives me two device names to choose from for the same 
scanner, and I've learned that it doesn't matter which one you pick, 
'cause one's the actual device name, and the other's just a symlink.  
And yes, the GIMP can and does interface with XSane very nicely, just 
like Adobe Photoshop does with scanner software on Windows.  It's neat.  
Play around with it.

--TP

Randall Swift wrote:

> Could some one point me to a "how to" on setting up a scanner in k12ltsp
> 3.1.2. Thanks
>
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