[sane-devel] Problems with mustek_pp and releasing the parallel port

[edg1 at tiscali.be]

Jim George wrote:
> > 2) Without xinetd, no gdb
> >    * Does scanimage hang?
> It didn't even get started.  I got the following error message:
> scanimage: open of device net:localhost:mustek_pp:Mustek-1200CP failed:
> Invalid argument

Sorry, I forgot to mention this: you have to run saned as root. 
Did you do that?

> [mustek_pp] cis_attach: couldn't attach to `parport0' (Invalid argument)

This is probably because saned didn't run as root.

> > 3) Without xinetd, in gdb
> >    * Does scanimage hang?
> No it exits immediately with the following error message:
> scanimage: open of device net:localhost:mustek_pp:Mustek-1200CP failed:
> Invalid argument

Probably the same problem here: gdb has to be started as root.

Please try tests 2 and 3 again, running saned/gdb as root 
(unless you already did that).
Sorry for not being clear the first time.

Eddy

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