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[b2bwild]

I don't mean to interfere with your help, b2bwild, but I think that I may have some info.

LOL, np, I think you will find a solution, however sane is anytime better than flegita

[D-cat]

sane quirk - tangent

With my scanner, I had to recompile the sane backends from svn source (should not be necessary in this case, my problem was having a newer Canon Pixma AIO printer). Yast refused to configure the scanner still, though now it could actually see it.

Sane refused to allow local connections to the unconfigured scanner: kept running into "permission denied" errors with no fudging of permissions working (short of running xsane as root, not acceptable IMO). The workaround was to use YaST to allow network access to all scanners, then I could use xsane device net:localhost - PIXMA blah blah to use my scanner. PITA, but works.

Also note that with parallel port scanners, for the user to have access, they must be a member of the group "lp". Now-a-days it tends to be a non-issue, since most scanners are USB, but may crop up with this one.

Okay, that was my two cents.

[waterhead]

I have never heard of flegita, but I guess that I'm not missing anything.

D-cat, I was also thinking about the permissions issue, and was going to suggest trying it as root. At least t28 could see if it would work.

There is a terminal command that you can use to try and connect, it is scanimage. To show available scanners, enter this.

scanimage -L

To see a list of options, use the --help option.

scanimage --help

There is an option to specify the device:

Parameters are separated by a blank from single-character options (e.g. -d epson) and by a "=" from multi-character options (e.g. --device-name=epson).

-d, --device-name=DEVICE use a given scanner device (e.g. hp:/dev/scanner)

I think that the -d option could be used along with the device location.

[waterhead]

The man pages give a bit more detail on this:

man scanimage

Here is the relevant part:

The -d or --device-name options must be followed by a SANE device-name like
‘epson:/dev/sg0’ or ‘hp:/dev/usbscanner0’. A (partial) list of available devices can
be obtained with the --list-devices option (see below). If no device-name is speci-
fied explicitly, scanimage reads a device-name from the environment variable
SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE. If this variable is not set, scanimage will attempt to open the
first available device.

So, a command like this may do the trick:

scanimage -d microtek:/dev/paraport0

First make sure that there actually is a /dev/paraport0.

[t28]

gnomescan-0.4.0.4.tar.gz does not have an extract option on its right click.

Installing gnome-scan-0.6-4.26.i586.rpm produces an error.
img98.imageshack.us/img98/8064/rpm.png (i cant post a direct link before 15 posts so kindly manually paste the link, thanks)

Currently, going through the microtek2 manual.

[b2bwild]

Download libgnomescan and install before gnomescan

[waterhead]

Did you try to use sane? I gave very detailed instructions on my previous posts.