Re: Canoscan N640P in FC6

[Tom Horsley]

>  I was given a canoscan N640P scanner and simply cannot get this thing
> to
>  work in Fedora core 6. 
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON claims that the N640P
has good support under sane, so the theory is that it should work :-).
One thing I've noticed before with printer port devices is that there
are several different ways you can configure the printer port in the
system bios, and sometimes some configs work better than others.

Canoscan N640P in FC6

[Tim]

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.  ;-)

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Canoscan N640P in FC6

[Gary Waters]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:36 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:

>  One thing I've noticed before with printer port devices is that
> there
>  are several different ways you can configure the printer port in the
>  system bios, and sometimes some configs work better than others.
>   

Hi Tom, Thanks for responding. I've been to that link and have tried the
different bios settings. It simply didn't work. This is why I'm
frustrated. 

Gary

Canoscan N640P in FC6

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:51 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>  Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:36 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  >> One thing I've noticed before with printer port devices is that there
>  >> are several different ways you can configure the printer port in the
>  >> system bios, and sometimes some configs work better than others.
>  >>
>  > 
>  > Hi Tom, Thanks for responding. I've been to that link and have tried the
>  > different bios settings. It simply didn't work. This is why I'm frustrated.
>  
>  Have you tried running your scanner software as root? 
Sane will bitch about it every time you do that. Annoying as Hell.
Stallman's ghost is in there into perpetuity. ;) Ric

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Canoscan N640P in FC6

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:36 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed before with printer port devices is that there
> > are several different ways you can configure the printer port in the
> > system bios, and sometimes some configs work better than others.
> >
>  
>  Hi Tom, Thanks for responding. I've been to that link and have tried the
>  different bios settings. It simply didn't work. This is why I'm frustrated.
Have you tried running your scanner software as root?

-Andy