The default path sane is looking for it's configuration files is "/usr/local/etc/sane.d". If they are not there ("/etc/sane.d" in Gentoo) , you have to set the env variable SANE_CONFIG_DIR to the sane.d directory. For example, "man sane-mustek" seems to be outdated, look here: http://ou800doc.caldera.com/cgi-bin/man/man?sane-mustek+5
ok, from what I see, the man pages on gentoo are actually newer than your URL shows. December 2001on Gentoo versus June 2001 there. Also, can you show me some output about the configuration files issue please? Ido not have a scanner, and I am totall unfamiliar with sane packages.
Fact is, with a fresh installed package, scanimage doesn't find the config files in "/etc/sane.d". Example ("scanimage -L" list all available scanner devices): ---Snip--- ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ export SANE_CONFIG_DIR="/etc/sane.d" ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ scanimage -L device `mustek:/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic' is a Mustek MFS-12000SP flatbed scanner ---Snap--- To set this variable at boottime I have created this file: ---Snip--- ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ cat /etc/env.d/30sane SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/sane.d ---Snap--- Some details about the config files: In "/etc/sane.d/dll.conf" you have to list all scanner models you want to use. In my case, there is only one entry: ---Snip--- ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ cat /etc/sane.d/dll.conf mustek ---Snap--- In the "/etc/sane.d/modelname.conf" files you have to set the correct device file names and you can set some model specific options. These are my settings: ---Snip--- ostheimm@hal9000 ostheimm $ cat /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf # See sane-mustek(5) for documentation. #--------------------------- Global options --------------------------------- #option strip-height 1 # some SCSI adapters need this; scanning may # be faster without this option #option force-wait # wait for scanner to be ready (only necessary # when scanner freezes) #option disable-double-buffering # try this if you have SCSI trouble #-------------------------- SCSI scanners ----------------------------------- /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic #option linedistance-fix # stripes may go away in color mode #option buffersize 1024 # set non standard buffer size (in kb) #option blocksize 2048 # set non standard block size (in kb) # option lineart-fix # lineart may be faster with this option off. option disable-backtracking # faster, but may produce stripes ---Snap--- Hope this will help you...
Yes, that helped me a lot. Actually it was your /etc/env.d entry which was the trick :). I have modified the ebuild to add a file in /etc/env.d to make a value for the environment variable. Thanks for your help on that one -- you actually sorted this bug :)
