Hi, sane-devel In the subject source module, in function sane_geniusvp2_parport_open(), a test for PARPORT_MODE_EPP fails and as a result sane does not find my Genius ColorPage-Vivid Pro II scanner. When this test is commented out, and the function returns 0, my scanner works fine and I am very happy.
I was helped greatly along this path by sadleder on the freenode irc channel #sane. I tried and failed to establish an account on https://alioth.debian.org/account/login.php (rbh00). My cookie mode is to manually set cookies for this session only, under firefox; it appeared that a cookie problem was inhibiting me from logging on; but the message did not say what cookie domain name was at issue, and I couldn't find anything appropriate in my cookies. Let me know, please, what domain is used and I'll remove it from my cookie exceptions and try logging in again. I'd be happy to answer questions you may have and to try things you may suggest. My system is Fedora 9 with sane version sane-backends-1.0.19-10.fc9, but to get the geniusvp2_parport shared object I had to use a mandrake source rpm, sane-1.0.15-7mdk.src.rpm. I went into its sane.spec file and made up for missing mklibname macros and missing XFree86-devel build-dependency; I did "make"; and I copied the resulting shared object libsane-geniusvp2.so.1.0.15 and its two symlinks from backend/.libs to /usr/lib/sane. I did make a special kernel, setting CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO and CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO to y. Richard Hitt rbh00 at netcom.com
