Hi, On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:54:31AM -0700, Don wrote: > Using xsane-0.91 with MDK 9.1 with KDE 2.
The version of sane-backends is more interesting. --> scanimage --version > I had xsane working fine with an Epson CX5400. While the CX5400 isn't mentioned in our lists it looks like the epson backend knows it. > However, the next time I booted the system, xsane no longer worked. > Xsane could not find the scanner. Does "scanimage -L" as root find the scanner? > The /etc/sane.d/epson.conf is the same as when it ran. - See below. > lsusb and sane-find-scanner both return 04b8 0808 Seiko Epson Corp. > /usr/bin/xsane said sane could not detect parallel devices as user and > root. I guess that's what sane-find-scanner says (not xsane). SANE can work with parallel port devices but sane-find-scanner can't detect all of them. But how is this realeted to your USB scanner? > The only lines in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf not disabled with an # are; A single line containing just "usb" should be enough. > usb 04b8 0808 This won't work as the USB ids are hexadecimal, not decimal. Add a "0x" before the numbers. > usb /dev/usb/lb0 I'd be surprised if you had a "/dev/usb/lb0" device. I've never heard of such a device. > Xsane work like this before. Are you sure that you haven't changed the config file in the mean time? Bye, Henning
