On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:43:29 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Define "just works," Just what it says. Plug it in and it starts working. > what is your firmware line in snapscan.conf? There is none. No firmware upload is required for this scanner. The relevant line in snapscan.conf is this: # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if # firmware upload is needed by the scanner firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin Notice that it hasn't changed from the default as-installed snapscan.conf. > This > would just work if I could get xsane to stop trying to improve it and > use it as is. Do you have/use a firmware update, and if not how did you > ask it not to try to do one? The issue never came up. I plugged in the scanner, loaded xsane, and started scanning stuff. That's really all there was to it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com