what happens if you run xsane from within gimp as a plugin?  This is what
I do with NetBSD-1.4.3, gimp, xsane, and a umax astra 1220S.

-Dan


On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Jeff Hergan wrote:

> I installed NetBSD 1.5.2 specifically so that I could put an old Umax 
> Astra 1200S scanner to work, while I wait for scanners to work on OS X.  
> Now that it's installed, I may also end up doing NAT with it and 
> possible httpd.
> 
> In any case, I can't get the damn thing to work :-\
> 
> Xsane, GIMP, XV are all installed.
> I can scan in Xsane if I do:
> xsane umax:/dev/ss0  (am I supposed to symlink /dev/ss0 to something?)
> I can see the previw image and when I check the directory after the scan 
> it tells me that out.pnm is there.
> I get no error messages.
> But when I try to open the out.pnm in xv I get:
> "Image size 0x0 not allowed."
> 
> And when I try to open it in gimp I get:
> Open failed.  PNM:  Invalid Y resolution.
> 
> I'm guess ing this is a simple matter of the scanner settings (size or 
> resolution) in xsane.
> But I have read and searched and I can't get past the errors no matter 
> what I try.
> 
> Can someone shed some light on this please?  I realize this may be a 
> little off-topic, but the xsane site wasn't very helpful and I'm stuck.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>