Hi all. I've installed xsane and saned at a friends' offices - for a non-profit foundation - and had a few strange problems.
I installed saned under inetd, as I didn't want non-priviledged users to run xsane. I then tested xsane, and quite a few problems: Xsane starts up well, even though I'd rather have have it _not_ check the parallel port, if I mean to have it run through the daemon. I didn't find how to do that. But then, communication between saned and xsane seems to be very unreliable. Erratically, I get the famous 'invalid argument' messages, when I try for example to change the mode from gray to color, or change the resolution. It's just unpredictable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I restarted xsane many times, and each time it behaves differently. Sometimes it works completely, sometimes not al all. All versions are the last ones - fresly downloaded. Kernel is 2.4.18, and the scanner is an Epson ActionScanner II (GT-5000M). All points to unreliable comm between xsane and saned... I'd appreciate suggestions. John
