Oliver, I think you may have cracked it. Snape20.bin permissions were "-rw------- 1 root". I went "chmod o+rx-w Snape20.bin" so they are now "-rw----r-x". Xsane was immediately able to shake hands with the scanner from a user desktop.
I'm still not sure why this problem seemed to correct itself - it started straight after I loaded the new firmware file, but dissappeared suddenly, only to reappear two days later! Thanks again (here's hoping!) Alisdair :-) Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > now we're getting somewhere... > > >>Right now scanimage returns: >> [snapscan] Cannot open firmware file >>/usr/local/etc/sane.d/Snape20.bin [snapscan] Edit the firmware file >>in snapscan.conf > > > Obviously your firmware file entry in snapscan.conf points to > /usr/local/etc/sane.d/Snape20.bin, but the file cannot be read by the > backend. So make sure you really copied the file to that directory > and that the file is world-readable. The filename is case sensitive. > > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > . >
