Re: [K12OSN] Scanner setup

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> 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".
>
> 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.
>
Terrell,
	and now please extend it to work when the scanner is connected to
a terminal ;-)
julius