| Summary: | xsane 0.999 gives no device choice (and gets it wrong) | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Tony Blackwell <tablackwell> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | fri, lewyssmith |
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | xsane-0.999-16.mga9.src.rpm | CVE: | |
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Description
Tony Blackwell
2023-11-21 01:56:52 CET
The camera, is it USB connected? CC:
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fri Did the problem appear after an update, or you have never had a webcam connected in this situation before? This is my main PC witnh M9 on another partition. Same issue on cauldron. I've just done a complete reinstall from classic iso, fully updated it but this is otherwise a brand-new install. Tony ... and yes, camera USB connected and has been there in same config for years. xsane was never interested in it before (or at least ranked it after the 2 printers in its choice list at startup). MFP Printers (HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus) are networked. Hardware layout unchanged over M 7,8,9 at least. I note also, presumably because it hasn't seen the scanner/printers, that there is no window to choose dpi resolution either. curious that the dpi window isn't there at all however. Mageia 9 Just fired up XSane on my box which has a USB Epson Perfection V500 scanner (difficult to make work with Linux) switched on. It first popped only its "Scanning for devices" window, and then exploded into 4 windows: Standard Options Perfection V500:007 Histogram Perfection Preview Perfection V500:007 (the main scanning one, with icons for actions) xsane 0.999 Perfection V500 (with menus) There was no device choice window, but nothing else available. I will re-try with a USB pure printer switched on. [Did: that made no difference, no device choice]. The 4th window has the X & Y resolution dropdowns; is it this Tony is not seeing? [Annoyance: XSane does not offer 300dpi !] So Tony, can you say what device choice window you used to see? And try switching off the camera to see what gets auto-chosen. Possibly disable the different printers one by one. Xsane has not been updated yet in M9. I can try this under Mageia 8 later. CC:
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lewyssmith Here's where I hang my head in shame. Too many M9 boxes. It appears I hadn't got around to running hp-setup on this one :-(( Sorry all. Working now. I do appreciate all the prompt responses I'll mark this resolved. Tony Status:
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RESOLVED Actually from distro point of view there was nothing to fix ;) Glad you got the local problem sorted. And yes we can wish it was less convoluted :) Resolution:
FIXED =>
INVALID (In reply to Tony Blackwell from comment #7) > It appears I hadn't got around to running hp-setup on this one :-(( Adding to my comment 6: I had not mentioned that for some reason (baffling to me) HPLIP got involved during Xsane's device search. I may at some point have run hp-setup to try & configure an accursed modern wireless-only HP printer; but do not normally do so: without any HP devices... And as for all those Xsane windows, I see now: they are defined by the 'Window' menu in the small main one. I tried this issue on Mageia 8, and that variability apart, saw the same thing as for M9. It would be nice to know what happens when Xsane (or whatever it uses to find devices) finds >1 scanner. Just curiosity. |