| openSUSE Documentation Chapter 2. Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST / 2.6. Setting Up a Scanner | ||||
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 | 2.5. Setting Up a Printer | Chapter 3. Installing or Removing Software |  | |
| openSUSE Documentation Chapter 2. Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST / 2.6. Setting Up a Scanner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5. Setting Up a Printer | Chapter 3. Installing or Removing Software | | |
You can configure a scanner at any time using
YaST. The sane-backends package
contains hardware drivers and other essentials needed to use a scanner.
Connect your scanner to your computer and turn on the scanner.
Start YaST and select +. YaST will check if the sane-backends package is available and will try to
detect your scanner model automatically.
Depending on the results, proceed as follows:
If you scanner is detected properly, select the entry and click .
If your scanner cannot be automatically detected, try + first. If this does not work, click to open the manual configuration dialog and select the appropriate model and driver. Refer to the help text on the left for detailed information.
Click .
Test the scanner by clicking +.
Click to close this module.
For details and background information about scanner configuration have a look at our support database article at http://opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2. If you have problems configuring your scanner model, find the support contact data in Section 13.7, “Support for openSUSE”.
