MAN pages

[Brian Densmore]

See comment about reading the sane documentation.
UMAX1220P is a supported device if I recall but,
is probably one of the hard to configure ones.
Best bet is to stick with USB and SCSI scanners.

Parallel port scanners are a notorious b**ch to work with.
I know I have one. What man page are you reading?
You need to make sure sane sees the device before you
got to step 2.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zscoundrel 
> 
> 
> 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???
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