Andy Green: >> Have you tried running your scanner software as root? Ric Moore: > Sane will bitch about it every time you do that. Annoying as Hell. > Stallman's ghost is in there into perpetuity. ;) Ric Try running xirc as root. ;-) There is a very real, and big, risk with going on IRC as root, and the warning is appropriately strong. I seem to recall it actually includes an insult. ;-) -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.