Req help - sane cannot find my Canon FB320P scanner

From: John McFee (John.McFee_at_drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:45:54 -0700

I have a Canon Canoscan FB320P parallel port scanner connected to my
Dell 400 MHz Pentium II computer. Nothing else is connected to the
parallel port. The scanner works fine under Windows 98 (dual boot
system) and I have been trying to get it to run under Linux without
success. I am running Red Hat 9 with the 2.4.20-8 kernel on an i686
architecture.

I have installed the sane-backends-1.0.9-5.5 rpm which includes
sane-canon_pp which supports the FB320P. (I actually had to build it
from the source rpm, because my distribution did not have the
sane-canon_pp.) I also have sane-frontends-1.0.9-2 and xsane-0.89-3
installed.

I uncommented the canon_pp line in /etc/sane.d/dll/conf. In
/etc/sane.d/canon_pp.conf, the following are set:
#default port
ieee1284 parport0
calibrate ~/.sane/canon_pp-calibration-pp0 parport0
init_mode FB620P parport0 (I've also tries init_mode AUTO, same results)

I then added my user account to the lp group, since the permissions on
parport0 are (from ls -l):

crw_rw_ _ _ _ 1 root lp 99, 0 Jan 30 2003 /dev/parport0

After all that, when I run xsane, either in my account or as root, I get
a splash window with "xsane 0.89 scanning for devices" which never ends.
Clearly, xsane cannot find the scanner.

I am pretty much at my wits end. I have searched the web and the news
groups extensively for quite some time and I have run out of ideas. Any
suggestions or help anyone may have would truly be appreciated.

Thanks

John McFee 

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