Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem : latest

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

(1) I've tested 'iscan' & the result is the same failure as 'xsane'.

(2) I've checked the contents of  /etc/sane.d  as they are now,
as they were at my last back-up before 180626 (when scanning worked)
& as they are in the Mint partition, where scanning still works :
there's no significant difference between the  3  versions.

(3) Following one suggestion, I tried renaming  ~/.sane ,
but that makes no difference either.

(4) I've run 'strace' with 'iscan' & on the Mint system :
the output is at  http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/xsane-trace.d1
& the other  2  "trace" files there.  The Mint version seems to find
a file in  /usr/share/iscan-data , which the others don't find,
but that file is present in my Gentoo system.

Does anyone have experience interpreting Strace output files ?

When I updated the kernel recently, I also had to update Nvidia-drivers.
Is it possible that that could have affected Xsane + Iscan ?

This really is a puzzle : any further suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks again for the others so far.

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