I have an Epson 1650 scanner which worked perfectly with my Redhat 8 installation. Never a second of grief. Now, after switching to RH 9 and the version of Sane which comes with it I find a very ill-mannered Sane implementation. First, XSane goes out and looks for a scanner automatically on log-in. My scanner is on a USB switch so it can be shared with two other computers so most of the time it is not available on start-up. The "Looking" dialog just hangs around forever. Second, I cannot use XSane or anything (GIMP) that uses it. The application just locks up after running the scanning mechanism. I have to KILL the process. I am using the current iscan rpm from EpsonKowa. Is there something I should know here?
Phil Dunton
