Fwd: scanning software

[Jim Cornette]

Nathan Low wrote:
> I have a USB scanner which is a hp 2100c.  Please
> advise me how I can use my scanner.  My scanner was
> detected.  Please respond.  thanks.
> 
> --- Nathan Low <nlow04 at yahoo.com> wrote:

You need to turn off, then back on the scanner or unplug, then replug 
the scanner back into the usb port.
Open up a terminal that is found under system tools and type xsane in 
the terminal. There used to be a link to launch xsane this way. Now you 
have to open up gimp to get to the scanner and only if you add the 
correct plugin for gimp to aquire scanners.
This should bring up the scanner program and you should be able to 
figure out how to use this program.

  Though this is not ideal, the 2.6 kernel does not include the scanner 
module that was included within the 2.4 kernel. Refer to this bug for 
the expanation.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121511

The bug report is long, but should be educational for the steps needed 
to get scanners to work. I believe that I have an hp 2100c scanner and 
have scanned a few documents with it. Hopefully an easier solution can 
be determined and applied. This is not an ideal way to scan. When you 
launch xsane, it should just find the scanner and work. Having the 
launcher back for xsane would be ideal also.

Jim
-- 
It would save me a lot of time if you just gave up and went mad now.