Re: [SLUG] SUSE 8.2

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 07:41:32 EDT

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:19, Richard S. Smoot wrote:
> Trying to get my Epson 2450 scanner fully functional in Linux.
> The book talks about Kooka. It doesn't tell that to get Kooka
> you have to install "kdegraphics3-scan".
> I want more functionality so I went for Epson-Kowa's ISCAN RPM.
> I couldn't figure out how to get it into YAST, but finally tried double
> clicking
> it and YAST came up. Then it said I needed the SANE Epson back ends.
> I got them as TAR.GZ. I UNTARed them, but how do I get YAST to use them?
> One of SUSE's failings is that I find no mention of downloading or what
> to do with
> downloaded files in the books that came with SUSE 8.2 Prof.
>
> Richard Smoot

I do not know how to make YAST to use the SANE backend, but I wrote an
example of how to set up the backend by hand and posted it to the list
about a year ago:

http://slug.archives.nks.net/List/slug.archive.0208/0032.html

The Logan 

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