Hi all, I honestly don't know what I did. I was playing around checking different settings and now xsane works fine.
Sorry for the bother. Regards, Colleen C. Beamer wrote: >Hi, > >When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my >scanner was working just fine. I don't use it that much, but today when >I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found. > >I checked dmesg and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be >anything wrong. > >The only thing that I did that might have affected it (although it >doesn't seem to have affected anything else) is: > >emerge --update --deep mozilla-firefox (because there was an updated >Firefox package) > >When I did this, emerge updated 26 packages including some x packages, >so I don't know if this is what is causing the problem. > >The scanner works in Window - I tested it to be sure that it wasn't a >scanner problem. > >Additionally, I used to have this problem when I ran FC4 all the time. >I have a USB printer, zip drive and game pad all connected to my system >and all work fine. The scanner is USB as well and in FC4, I used to >always have to remove the usb cable and plug it back in again and then I >could get xsane to recognize the scanner. However, I tried that and had >no luck. > >Any ideas? > >Regards, > >Colleen > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
