I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to the system administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when I am trying to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system administrator.
What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when it says "you may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be using them and doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages - SHEESH
I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really shallow and the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has anyone got any experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It is an old parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have available right now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to pop for a USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Any suggestions???
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:09:08 -0600 Zscoundrel Zscoundrel@kc.rr.com wrote:
I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to the system administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when I am trying to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system administrator.
What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when it says "you may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be using them and doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages
- SHEESH
This is because often a Unix system is multi-user with hundreds of people with shells on it and some of them need to read man pages. Not so much the case anymore, but used to be the norm.
I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really shallow and the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has anyone got any experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It is an old parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have available right now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to pop for a USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Any suggestions???
I'd check out the sane and xsane documentation as that is probably the scanner interface you'll want to use. Sorry I can't be more help, never messed with scanners much.
--------------------------------- Frank Wiles frank@wiles.org http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------
I really don't know the steps involved in this, but the first thing you need to do is get the parallel port SCSI emulation going. You might find some help at tldp.org in the sections on parallel port ZIP and JAZZ drives.
Next you've got to get xsane to see that printer. I don't remember if the xsane docs say anything about working with parallel port scanners, but they might help too.
Finally, there is a list of what scanners xsane supports. The 1220 sounds familiar, but I know the USB scanner I had was the one model by that manufacturer that wasn't supported.
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