On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:19:58PM -0400, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:48:04PM -0500, Petr Hlustik wrote: > > Well, after I've written all this, I remembered I brought in my Debian > > Sarge laptop - so I installed sane there and tried the scanner there after > > modyfing the sane.d/epson.conf. I ran sudo xsane just fine. I guess I did > > mess up the parallel port on my desktop box after all. :-( > > I doubt that you've messed up the parallel port. It's more likely that > you did something to the configuration of your system that makes your > scanner unuseable. > > I would try to recreate the configuration you had when the scanner worked. > I know that this is pretty complicated, but I am pretty sure that this > will work.
I have to confess the whole thing was due to a connection problem. I must have kicked the parallel cable, though I swear I checked that the connector sits in OK. I guess what fooled me was that some information seemed to be getting through. Sorry for that and thanks very much for your patience with me. Best, Petr
