MAN pages

[Zscoundrel]

That's as good a place to start as any.  Apparently the device is not 
recognized.  I just set to BIOS to EPP and rebooted that machine, but 
still can't find the device.


Brian Densmore wrote:

>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.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Zscoundrel 
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>>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. 
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>>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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