On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:19:15PM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > > Now this is strange. Did you try to set the color depth to 8 bits in
Well, to bite my own cheek, I just tried xscanimage and it now works somehow. But yesterday xscanimage wouldn't work when xsane would. Go figure. > xscanimage? When you tried iscan, did you have a "normal" Sane > installation on the same machine? IScan comes with a modified backend, > and it requires this backend. Depending on how the library path > is set up, it may have found the wrong backend. Yes, I did have a sane installation. Hmmm, That's probably it then. Now I have to find out how to make iscan not see the other sane stuff. I installed iscan under /usr/local (with stow, a dandy app that makes symlinks for me so it's easy to "uninstall"). Thanks for the tips. -Roberto -- +----| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |------+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.edu/ - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.