On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:51:12AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >I scan using and HP PSC all-in-one money pit and it works flawlessly > >with xsane. > > Maybe its worth buying this scanner. Is it a SCSI one? Maybe they work > more easily in sane and xane..... > no, its a USB Hewlett-Packard PSC 1210 (PSC=print, scan, copy). They're now up to PSC 13xx or something like that -- also works great. the hplip package seems to just work with these devices, but then HP helped write them, I believe. > > > >> > >> I get all these weird I/O output crashes. Sane sort of works but is > >flaky > >> sometimes. so sane works a bit, what's the difference between sane and xsane. I know they are different packages, but have they forked the backend? huh. weird. I have tried the gimp quite insane thing and it also dies > >with > >> the I/O problem. > >> > > > > > >how about some output for us to look at? > > OK. BUt Xsane just produces one line error messages to the screen. If it > writes a log file somewhere or could set up to do so as a job then this > might help. have you tried running xsane from a terminal to capture any output it might be sending to stdout? you might try purging the whole mess and/or killing the config's for it and starting over -- check the manpage for a list of config files that get written, there are several. > > Sane and the probes of sane success in detecting the scanner produce lots > of nice output. I have planted it on numerous sites and bored the pants > off people with it but have not yet got any joy. The last two mailing > lists resulted in no response at all with any suggestion of how to improve > things. I > > I think mine is a genuinely tough case. soudns like it. good luck A
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