Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes - Solved

2006-12-08 Thread JRH
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:40, JRH wrote: Anyway, have to work out a way of changing the permissions now, as all images that are coming are accessible as root only... Easily solved!! Opened Konqueror as root, and went to /dev/ and altered permissions to parport0 so that others could read

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes - Solved

2006-12-05 Thread ET
Miark wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:40:46 +, JRH wrote: Didnt know feminine hygiene products were central to Linux scanner operation?? :-) Hell, central to the universe--just ask 'em. Anyway, have to work out a way of changing the permissions now, as all images that are coming are

[newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread JRH
Hi All, I've finally gotten round to plugging a scanner in Guess what? it wont go.. I have all the relevant sane files etc, and if I go to configure your scanner in MCC, it tries to detect, the scanner whirrs, and then the program exits abnormally There is no sign of the device

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread Miark
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote: There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner. For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220P Parallell port affair. Is the port enabled in the bios? Miark

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread JRH
Quoting Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote: There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner. For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220P Parallell port affair. Is the port enabled

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread JRH
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:30, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 15:18, Miark wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote: There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner. For info, the

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread JRH
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:21, JRH wrote: Quoting Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote: There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner. For info, the scanner is a UMAX Astra

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes.....

2006-12-04 Thread ET
JRH wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 21:30, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 15:18, Miark wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:47:03 +, JRH wrote: There is no sign of the device in HardDrake at all, I open up xsane, and all it will see, is my TV card, no scanner. For info, the

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes - Solved

2006-12-04 Thread JRH
Think I have cracked it! Opened xsane as root, and managed to get a successful scan!! Although the command line threw up this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su root Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jrh]# xsane [umax_pp_low] PS2registerRead: found 0x20 expected 0x0 (umax_pp_low.c:7554) [umax_pp_low] Warning

Re: [newbie] Scanner Woes - Solved

2006-12-04 Thread Miark
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:40:46 +, JRH wrote: Didnt know feminine hygiene products were central to Linux scanner operation?? :-) Hell, central to the universe--just ask 'em. Anyway, have to work out a way of changing the permissions now, as all images that are coming are accessible as root