[sane-devel] new kde, kills sane

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 19 May 2003 13:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Humm, the missus just came in and said can you scan this?  The
> last time I used the scanner it was working great, but now the
> icon that launches xsane goes thru the root warning and then
> scans for devices forever, or until I call ksysguard and kill it.
>
>sane-find-scanner shows this:
>---------------------------
>[root at coyote root]# sane-find-scanner
>
>  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different,
>make sure that
>  # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
>found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x010f) at
>/dev/usb/scanner0
>found USB scanner (vendor=0x1453, product=0x4026) at
> libusb:002:005 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^not a scanner, but a usb-serial
> adaptor^^^^^^^^^^^^^ found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON],
> product=0x010f [EPSON Scanner 010F]) at libusb:002:003
>  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>supported by
>  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>  # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
>ports can't be
>  # detected by this program.
>-------------------------
>
>scanimage -L hangs forever also, but can be ctrl-c'd.
>Next, I reconfiguring and reinstalling all 3 pieces, which if that
>doesn't fix, I'll be back.
>xsane is .90, sane-backends is 1.0.11, sane-frontends is 1.0.10,
> and it all worked great before I installed kde-3.1.1a and or that
> usb-serial adaptor, a prologic that works just fine also.
Update, it turned out it was hanging on the epson backend (from 
iscan-1.5.0) so I disabled that in dll.conf and its working.

Then the print plugin for the gimp seems to have gone awol. Gimp 
says it crashed.  So I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't it 
seems.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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