Hi, On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:11:02PM -0700, Philip M Dunton wrote: > I have an Epson 1650 scanner which worked perfectly with my Redhat 8 > installation. Never a second of grief. > Now, after switching to RH 9 and the version of Sane which comes with it I
Which version of SANE is that (scanimage --version)? > find a very ill-mannered Sane implementation. > First, XSane goes out and looks for a scanner automatically on log-in. You mean xsane is started when you log into X? Oh well... But that is really a setup you should ask Redhat about. We (the SANE developers) don't do that :-) > My scanner is on a USB switch so it can be shared with two other > computers so most of the time it is not available on start-up. The > "Looking" dialog just hangs around forever. All the frontends ask the backends for available scanners on start-up. But this shouldn't take more than a few seconds. > Second, I cannot use XSane or anything (GIMP) that uses it. The application > just locks up after running the scanning mechanism. I have to KILL the > process. Does that also happen with other frontends like xscanimage or scanimage? E.g. try (in an xterm): SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L If it hangs, what are the last few lines of output? They should contain the name of the backend that freezes. You can comment out this backend in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. > I am using the current iscan rpm from EpsonKowa. Oh, that's not part of the SANE package. If it's a problem with that package, better ask Epson-Kowa for help. > Is there something I should know here? You could try the normal epson backend that comes with SANE. Bye, Henning