On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 06:44 -0500, Gary Waters wrote: > Hi, > > I was given a canoscan N640P scanner and simply cannot get this thing > to work in Fedora core 6. I've googled until my mind turned to mush. I > found considerable info on configuring sane with this unit, and > followed everything step-by-step, but to no avail. The unit definitely > works in XP. Any clues, pointers, rain dances, astrological forecasts, > or even Nostradamus quotes regarding a solution would be greatly > appreciated... Nostrodamus asks, "Is it SCSI, Parallel or USB?" Since I already channel Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Hunter Thompson, ole Nostros grabbed a piece of my brain too, to ask for clarification. What you may not have done is open the lid after invoking sane. It'll go lurch-lurch and be ready to scan. My HP refuses to scan unless I open and shut the lid at times, especially if I put the picture in, then crank up sane after. I did all that you did, beat myself up, brain turned to mush, etc. Then discovered this "feature". A grown man crying is a pitiful thing to see. :) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
