Hello Folks, I have been happily using xsane to do my scanning for quite a while. Now, for some inexplicable reason, when I start xsane it comes up with 'no devices available' If I enter the command scanimage -d epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' I get the error message 'scanner busy'. If I run 'sane-find-scanner' it tell me that it found the following:-
sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010c) at device /dev/usb/scanner0. It is an Epson Perfection 640U. And just to really confuse me, if I run Kooka, the KDE scanning application which also uses sane, it works just fine. I have checked out the archives and checked all my sane/xsane install and can see no obvious problem. My system is RH8 and the output of 'rpm -qa | grep sane' is as follows:- [graeme@barney graeme]$ rpm -qa | grep sane xsane-gimp-0.84-8 sane-backends-1.0.8-5 sane-frontends-1.0.8-4 xsane-0.84-8 sane-backends-devel-1.0.8-5 The only thing that I can think of that happened between the last time xsane worked fine and now is I upgraded gnucash to 1.8.9 which resulted in having to upgrade a slew of packages for perl etc. to enable 'update-finance-quote'. I cannot see how this could affect xsane but who knows? Any clues would be much appreciated. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay ... I'm going home to write the "I HATE RUBIK's CUBE HANDBOOK FOR DEAD CAT LOVERS" ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - IMPORTANT. - - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
