[LUG] Sane - Anyone got any hints?

[Simon Avery <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

This one's been nagging at me for a while, since I moved over completely 
to Fedora c2. Got all my hardware working EXCEPT for a scanner.

I have three scanners, 1 has no PSU, the other is a Mustek parrallel 
driven one that Sane's drivers say doesn't work - but the third is a HP 
Scanjet 4100c usb, which IS supported in Sane. It also works perfectly 
under XP.

Except it don't work!

sane-find-scanner reports it correctly.
scanimage -L calls it by its rightful name

xsane or xscanimage both segfault, or hang or timeout.

I've tried lots of things, changing ports, checking it again, even 
replacing the motherboard (including going from Via chipset to SIS), 
gone from 2.6.5.1:358 to 2.6.8.1:521 (both binary kernels - I've rolled 
my own before and can't see any real advantage) but nothing's working.

Fedora doesn't have modconf, and none of the FAQ's regarding sane appear 
 to be particularly useful with regard to Fedora (files in wrong 
places, kernel wrong, etc)

Has anyone successfully setup a usb scanner with Sane? If so, any fairly 
basic directions please? (The docs and howtos don't give you enough 
information for me to get my head around exactly what is supposed to be 
happening)

Or, is there any other workable scanner systems for linux that aren't 
sane based?

I can't even dual-boot back into XP to scan now, because the mobo 
upgrade means XP reboots before it even gets to gui, even in safe mode 
and I don't really want to reinstall it, then have to redo the Grub MBR 
after XP has tramped its very heavy feet over it. (Fedora auto-detected 
and setup all the new hardware straight away, btw.)

Thanks for any hints. :)

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