Hi, On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:13:56AM +0000, fr...@ibelgique.com wrote: > I'm getting this message whenever I try use my > scanner (it's a Primax colorado Direct 300).
So you are using the external primax backend? > It's getting listed without any problems by scanimage -L, but when I > try for instance scanimage --lamp-on, I'm getting sane_start:access > to the resource has been denied. Usually you get debug messages by setting SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME, so in your case try SANE_DEBUG_PRIMAX=255 scanimage --lamp-on > It's the same when I try to connect via a frontend > (xscanimage,xsane). The frontend starts, it > recognises the scanner but when I click preview or > lamp-on, I get always the same message error. > I've never had this problem before on a Mandrake 8.2 > or 9.0. It's only since I've upgraded to 9.1 that > this happens. What has changed between these versions? Kernel and/or the version of the primax backend? > Connnecting via saned changes nothing. > Off course I tried to connect as root, to chmod 777 > on /dev/lp0, That's the device for the printer, not the parallel port. > to setowner and group to root in > saned.conf You can't set any oweners or groups in saned.conf. > and to set all the permissions in the > net.conf and dll.conf files to localhost. Huh? You can't set any permissions in these files. > If someone could help, or even give a hint, I would > be very thankful. Maybe the backend doesn't like that you have the ppdev module loaded? Bye, Henning
