[sane-devel] Help! - SANE broken on Debian sid

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:29:31AM +0000, Major A wrote:
> > But when I do 'scanimage -L', a line of rubbish gets printed out to my
> > parallel port laser printer (!), then scanimage just hangs. Ditto for
> > xcane and xscanimage.
> 
> This is probably because a parallel port backend in SANE is
> enabled. Please try and disable all backends in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> (or whereever Debian puts the configuration files) that you don't
> need. If your backend serves both parallel-port and USB scanners, you
> should tell it in its own configuration file not to use the parallel
> port.

I'm pretty sure that it's cause by hpsj5s. There has been a similar bug
report about that backend.

Bye,
  Henning