follow up: pp scanner

Florian Idelberger florian at idelberger.de
Mon May 10 14:25:15 UTC 2004


After a recompile and changing the device in plustek.conf from 
/dev/parport0 to /dev/pt-drv it fianlly worked.
Thanks.

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 10.05.2004 schrieb Florian Idelberger um 15:29:
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>>>[root at incarnationofdeath plustek_driver]# make load
>>>/sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
>>>sh: line 1: modprobe: command not found
>>>modprobe: pre-install pt_drv failed
>>>modprobe: insmod pt_drv failed
>>>make: *** [load] Fehler 1
>>>[root at incarnationofdeath plustek_driver]#
>>>      
>>>
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>Looks a bit curious as the full path to modprobe is given and a system
>without modutils would simply not run.
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>A wild guess: did you become root with "su -" or just "su"? I last then
>keep in mind that this is mostly insufficient as it does not set the
>full environment for root (see man su for details about login shell).
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>>Why is that? Because the error message isn't very specific, are there 
>>any chances to know what exactly went wrong?
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>See above and be sure you got root with "su -" or "su -l". And have a
>look at the Makefile, especially the part which has the instructions
>about "load".
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>>I appreciate your help,
>>florian
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>Alexander
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