I installed xsane from the software store. The installation seems straight forward enough. But the software doesn’t work properly. It fails to connect to my Samsung printer/scanner. This is a new Rocky 9 linux installation: VERSION=“9.7 (Blue Onyx)”. Because it’s a new installation, I think I’m missing some drivers for the scanner.
The old xsane is running fine on my current Rocky 8 system. I don’t think I have any hardware issue. I can’t remember what I did before. The xsane is working fine my old Rocky 8 but not on the new Rocky 9. Can anyone tell me what’s missing?
Compare the list of installed rpms from your working system to the new one. If there’s a missing driver it’ll probably show up there.
rpm -qa --qf “%{NAME}\n” > list
do the same thing on the other computer
combine the two lists and use the uniq command to show you the differences as shown in step 4, or you can use something like meld or vimdiff to do the comparison, whichever you’re most comfortable with.
I’m not sure if this is the same with Rocky, I’m currently using a Debian based Distro. But on this I Had to edit a file in /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf & change the IP address of the “Samsung sxc4500W” to that of the printer & also the Port it listens on. It will probably be similar in Rocky, but the config file may be located elsewhere or have a different name.
I did what you’ve suggested. There’re huge difference between the two systems. The fact the trouble computer is a freshly installed system, compare to the working one that I’ve been using for a long while. One would expect a big difference. I can’t isolate the rpm differences concerning the xsane app. I just to many to go through.
I don’t know, but I do know that at one point with any RH clone, I had to edit firewalld to allow mdns through. This was if using airscan Maybe installing VLC does something to allow mdns, but that sounds unlikely to me.
I can say for fact this issue wasn’t in the firewall. I’ve set my firewall to the active zone=trusted before the VLC installation. Whole bunch of libraries dependency were added to the system at the VLC installation. I think that made the different to the xane.
Have you already checked & edited that file I mentioned? Xsane doesn’t automatically support networking, you usually have to edit the sane file of the respective Printer to get it to connect. The file I mentioned probably isn’t specific to your printer, & also the section to edit probably isn’t the same Printer model, but it is the one where you can set the IP address & port. I’ve used that for several different MFP printers, & it worked.
Yes, I did. It didn’t change the respond. Xsane connected to my usb webcam. If I disconnect the webcam, it didn’t even run. I’m convinced a library was missing until the VLC was installed.