Hello, On Jul 30 20:07 Art Fore wrote (shortened): > > A few months ago, I used my HP Scanjet 5300C on Suse 10.2 with no > > problems. Now, it is a hit or miss process, mostly miss.
What did you do in between? > > I go to Yast, Hardware, Scanner, the scanner was listed using the > > avision driver. I do a test, the test passes. Does it pass the test also several times? > > Go to OpenOffice Draw, Insert picture, from scanner,then select scanner. > > No scanner shows up. > > > > Go to Kooka, it also does not find the scanner. Try Xsane, takes about > > 10 minutes to get open, but also cannot find the scanner. Does it work as root but not as normal user? If yes, it is perhaps only a permission problem? > > Kooka did work one time after going to yast and running a test on the > > scanner, but then no more. This doesn't look like a permission problem. > > Nothing shows up in the system log other than where yast installed it > > when I edited the scanner setup with no changes. See "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 > > Apparently, one of the upgrades changed something the scanning system > > does not like. What exactly is "one of the upgrades"? > > System is 64-bit AMD athlon 3200+ with 2 gig of ram. ... > Tried this again tonight, did get something different. Kooka found > scanner, but prescan did not work. Xsane comes up with an error that > HewlettPackard:Scanjet5300.drc is not a device-rc-file!!! All the above looks strange. In particular when stuff sometimes works and sometimes fails it is likely a hardware-related problem. Not necessarily broken hardware but perhaps a low-level software problem e.g. kernel, USB system or SCSI system, whatever other low-level software which might be triggered by unstable working hardware. See for example "USB Cable Connection and Additional USB Hubs" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
