Re: [K12OSN] Scanner setup

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> sane is supposed to come with saned which is the network daemon - so it
> should just be a matter of configuration for it to work on a client.

Tim,
	explain it to Steve Wright - he is working on it now. ;-)
julius