[sane-devel] Parallel and saned: GIMP impossible, since no default device found

[G. L. `Griz' Inabnit]

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:12, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> I managed to get my parallel port scanner working, and I managed to set
> up saned, so I'm now able to run xsane/xscanimage/scanimage as normal
> user (saned runs as root).
>
> The problem is that xsane etc. fail to autodetect the scanner that's
> made available through saned on my localhost, i.e. I have to provide
> xsane with the device name on the command line:
>
>   xsane                      -- fails and quite with "xsane: no devices
>                                 available"
>
>   xsane net                  -- xsane immediately fails and quits with
>                                 "Failed to open device Invalid argument."
>                                 (no noise from scanner, though)
>
>   xsane net:localhost        -- noise from scanner, but xsane fails and
>                                 quits with "Failed to open device
> 				'net:localhost': Invalid argument."
>
>   xsane net:localhost:epson  -- works
>
> Starting xsane as root, it autodetects the local 'epson' device (since
> it now has permissions to access the pio address):
>
>   sudo xsane                 -- works, but using the local 'epson' device
>                                 and not 'net:localhost:epson'
>
>
> Similar, "scanimage --list-devices" fails to detect anything, but "sudo
> scanimage --list-devices" detects the local scanner device:
>
>    device `epson:0x378' is a Epson GT-5000 flatbed scanner
>
>
> I tried to set "SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE=net:localhost:epson" in the
> environment, but this seems to have no effect at all.
>
>
> The problem is that this makes the scanner unusable with the GIMP, since
> I'm not able to provide the GIMP SANE plugin with a devicename.
>
>
> Am I missing something obvious, or is it really impossible to use a
> parallel port scanner with the GIMP due to this limitation ?
>
>     Gregor

	Gregor,

	I found that it was my lines in /etc/inetd.conf that was at fault....

#sane           stream  tcp     nowait  saned.saned     /usr/sbin/saned saned
sane            stream  tcp     nowait  root.root     /usr/sbin/saned saned

	The commented line is the original, the second is the one that worked for 
me. Hope this helps.


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