Hello Henning and Gerhard You both provided some help for my xsane / sane problem.=20
You suggested I try a more recent SANE backend. I did that, but found tha= t=20 xsane 0.84 no longer knew where to find SANE. I guess I could have got ar= ound=20 this by finding a source of xsane 0.84 and compiling it. But I couldn't f= ind=20 it (OK, I probably did not try that hard!) and instead, I tracked down th= e=20 source of "quiteinsane" (Henning's suggestion). This seems to work well. So now I have quiteinsane 0.9 and sane backends 1.0.10 working together O= K. Even the scanner lamp gets switched off when I quit quiteinsane! My only concern now is that the scanner seems to rattle a bit more than i= t did=20 way back (you may remember that I am rebuilding my scanner software becau= se I=20 "borke" my linux set up). I would not describe it as a "loud noise" but d= oes=20 sound a bit like the scanner is trying to run too far. This could be my=20 imagination, but any suggestions would be gratefully received. In response to some of your points: - I *think* that kernel 2.4.10 is fine for USB. My keyboard and camera ar= e USB=20 and work fine. - I tried to get some debug output, but the command SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=3D= 3D20=20 xsane 2>log.txt did not write anything to log.txt. I presume because I ha= d to=20 KILL xsane? Anyway, not a problem for me now. Thanks for your help. Steve
