Henning, thanks for your quick reply. >So you are using the external primax backend? Yes I am, http://px-backend.sourceforge.net/
>> It's getting listed without any problems by scanimage -L, >but when I >> try for instance scanimage --lamp-on, I'm getting >sane_start:access >> to the resource has been denied.=20 >Usually you get debug messages by setting >SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME, so >in your case try >SANE_DEBUG_PRIMAX=3D255 scanimage --lamp-on Ok, I did it, but this gives no other results (it still only prints the error message). I tried SANE_DEBUG_DLL and I've got something there. But IMHO nothing seemed strange. I can send the results if someone wants me to do so. >>It's only since I've upgraded to 9.1 that >> this happens. >What has changed between these versions? Kernel and/or the >version of the primax backend? Maybe the kernel, but I'm not sure. If there was a change it was a minor one. The backend did certainly not change. >> Connnecting via saned changes nothing. >> Off course I tried to connect as root, to chmod 777 >> on /dev/lp0, >That's the device for the printer, not the parallel port. scanimage -L shows me this, so I assume it's right what I'm doing. Anyway it worked before like this. >Maybe the backend doesn't like that you have the ppdev >module loaded? Sorry, I'm not an expert. Could you explain this to me? Thanks for your help Franek
