On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 06:47 -0600, John Pierce wrote: > > what happens when you do Applications>Graphics>The Gimp>Aquire ? > > Seems to me, you need to first fire up Gimp as root ( to accept the > > license) - gary > > > > Aquire has nothing but grayed out options, and the outpus of saned > -d128 is as follows: > > [saned] main: starting debug mode (level 128) > [saned] main: trying to get port for service `sane-port' (getaddrinfo) > [saned] main: [0] socket () using IPv4 > [saned] main: [0] setsockopt () > [saned] main: [0] bind () to port 6566 > [saned] main: [0] listen () > [saned] main: [1] socket () using IPv6 > [saned] main: [1] socket failed: Address family not supported by protocol > [saned] main: waiting for control connection > [saned] saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.15 ready > [saned] check_host: access by remote host: 127.0.0.1 > [saned] check_host: remote host is IN_LOOPBACK: access granted > [saned] init: access granted > [saned] init: access granted to eagle1@xxxxxxxxx > [saned] process_request: waiting for request > [saned] process_request: got request 1 > [saned] process_request: waiting for request > [saned] process_request: got request 10 > [saned] quit: exiting > > The above was generated by starting kooka as a normal user. Kooka > never offers the select device dialog upon startup. If I launch iscan > from epson/kowa it tells me the that it could not connect to any > devices. > > The following was generated by the command: > > telnet localhost 6566 > > [saned] main: starting debug mode (level 128) > [saned] main: trying to get port for service `sane-port' (getaddrinfo) > [saned] main: [0] socket () using IPv4 > [saned] main: [0] setsockopt () > [saned] main: [0] bind () to port 6566 > [saned] main: [0] listen () > [saned] main: [1] socket () using IPv6 > [saned] main: [1] socket failed: Address family not supported by protocol > [saned] main: waiting for control connection > [saned] saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.15 ready > [saned] check_host: access by remote host: 127.0.0.1 > [saned] check_host: remote host is IN_LOOPBACK: access granted > [saned] init: access granted > [saned] init: bad status=0 or procnum=-720899 > [saned] quit: exiting > > I do not understand why I have no scanning, this is the same output I > used to get under FC3 and all worked fine. > > Thanks > > John > So far I seem to have made a number of false assumptions. First it appeared to me that you had upgrade from fc3 to fc4. Then I assumed you were using XSane - now it appears you're trying to scan on a network. My only experience comes from having the scanner plugged directly to the back of my machine. Yet when it comes to trouble-shooting, first I try to reduce everything to its most simple element. Have you tried to access the scanner directly? How about using XSane. Then try your network. ( XSane has always worked well for me and I've never used kooka. gary