[sane-devel] Trouble with Primax 4800 Direct

[Daniel Klär]

Gerhard Jaeger schrieb:

>>Here we go, one quick test. I start xscanimage as normal user. It
>>doesn't ask me what device I want to choose (like it does for root),
>>it uses the net:localhost:plustek_pp:parport0 automatically. I click
>>"Preferences" in the menu and check the checkbox "Show advanced
>>options": xscanimage disappears without saying "Good bye".
> 
> 
> Hmmm, no very nice ;)

Mea culpa. I found the reason for the GUI-crashes this morning. When I 
see a file with a conf-extension, I cannot resist :-) My plustek_pp.conf 
contained the lines:

|option warmup   10
|option lOffOnEnd 1
|option lampOff  30

The last line causes xsane & xscanimage to crash. The lamp switches off 
30s after program start. Then the next mouse click kills the GUI. I 
could  reproduce this several times. After changing back the last line 
to default value (-1) both programs run rock-solid.

> Yep! Try 
> chmow a+rw /dev/.static/dev/parport0

I'll try.


> So keep the masochism and try to compile SANE from source, install it
> and see if the plustek_pp stuff works better.

I will, but not on my current setup. I've seen the required versions of 
some libs to compile the current CVS source. I would have a lot of 
trouble on Debian Sarge with dependencies and don't want to break other 
applications.
But I'll find a partition to install a distri with more recent packages.

Best Regards
Daniel