Hi Henning, On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:15, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > > Well, what does happen when you try to scan? Try scanimage >image.pnm. > If that doesn't work, set the debug variable. Do the same for xsane. > Do you use both xsane and scanimage as the same user? Otherwise there > may be permission problems. I only one version of SANE installed? > Otherwise xsane may use the other one.
scanimage works, but only when run as root. When I try scanimage as a normal user I get the message: scanimage: no SANE devices found. This is similar to when I try to start xsane from KDE as normal user: xsane: no devices found. Note...sane and xsane are set up for anyone to execute, so not a permission problem. There is certainly only one copy of xsane running. To be certain I tried removing it with apt-get remove twice, (and also for sane on its own) and got nothing. I think this is part of the problem...when I try to start xsane as root, I get: debian:/home/barry# xsane Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 I'm out of my depth here. Is this a problem with permissions/access somewhere in X? (Don't forget, I was root when starting xsane from terminal.) Also the version of xsane I'm using is 0.84-2 from the Debian stable CDs. Many thanks for your help, Barry
