Hi Allan Before i tried your suggestion xsane was as dead as a dodo.
scanimage > image.pnm simply placed a lineart image into my /home/'username' directory which i simply checked with the GIMP image editor Thinking using a text based application like scanimage was not really my idea of a final solution, i selected xsane once more. To my great surprise and delight it kicked in and is now up and running. I can now scan in full glorious colour! For the record, why does xsane now work when all else before failed? Has it just simply used the scanned image location info to deduce my user account and set the appropriate image file and directory permissions? If so 'No devices available' does not adequately convey the real system requirements. All the same, many thanks for that Dave On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 11:26 -0400, m. allan noah wrote: > > > > Unfortunately i do not know how to use scanimage to be of any further > > effective use. > > > > Any suggestions? Do I need to try something different? > > scanimage --help should give more clue. hint: > > scanimage > image.pnm > > then look at image.pnm with your favorite image viewer. If that looks > ok, but xsane does not work, perhaps you are using a different user? > > allan
