Keith Powell wrote:
On Sunday 09 May 2004 13:41, Sid Boyce wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
Version 9.0 worked almost "out of the box" with very few tweaks required. However, I have been trying 9.1 and am having all sorts of problems with it.
For example, a clean install gives me the error message:
bash: /dev/nul: permission denied (this line three times)
whenever I run a terminal.
This has been sorted by my altering the dev/nul permissions. However, there are still several error messages whenever I try to run anything from the terminal. Not had this happen before!
However, the main problem I have found is that I can't get my Epson 1240U scanner to work. SUSE 9.0 found it and it worked perfectly.
If I run xsane or xscanimage, they can't find the scanner. So I have set it up with YAST (installation didn't find it!). If I run xsane as a user, it still can't find the scanner. However, using a terminal and ignoring all the error messages, if I run xsane as ROOT, it runs and scans. After that, I can run it as a user until I shut down the computer. When I start the computer again, I have to run xsane as ROOT again before I can run it as a user. Very frustrating!
I have re-installed 9.1 three times, and each time I get the same problems. I then did a clean installation of 9.0. Everything (including the scanner) worked. But after an upgrade, the scanner had disappeared again and I was back to manually installing it and running ROOT first.
I have checked and re-checked permissions in xsane, sane.d and the epson config file in sane.d. They are all OK.
Also, I have installed all the patches.
Oh boy! this sounds very strange. When you said clean install, I take it that it included reformatting the partitions. If it weren't for the 9.0 install being fine, I'd have said it was hardware as I recently had similar problems when I changed CPU/mobo/mem and it turned out to be a bad CPU. The suspicion has to fall on the install media, with 9.0 I found I couldn't install from the DVD and I had some problems with CD2 till with a struggle I got it to make a copy which worked OK. It also could be my CD-RW/DVD on this box, however, I shall see what happens when I get around to upgrading the 32-bit laptop (CD-only) and this 32-bit box. Yesterday I successfully upgraded one laptop from 9.0 x86_64 Pro to 9.1 x86_64 Pro with only one funny where grub is looking in /usr/lib for the stage files, I copied them from /boot/grub into /usr/lib and that fixed it, I shall have a look at "man/info grub" for clues. I am also running on the kernel.org 2.6.5-mm2 kernel which I was using previous to the upgrade. Have you tried both the CD's and the DVD's? Regards Sid.
I agree, it's a "good one", Sid.
What seems strange, is that no one else has mentioned scanner or terminal error message problems.
I had no scanner problems at all with 9.0. Installation just found it - unlike 9.1.
Can't try the DVD as I don't have a DVD drive.
For the various installs, I both let SUSE partition the drive and did it myself. So the partitions varied each time.
Cheers
Keith
I have had scanner problems due to the 2.6 kernels. They took out support for all ecept one HP scsi scanner, saying that they should be supported by libusb and scanimage, on the kernel mailing list one of the main kernel guys told someone to take it up with the libusb list. I tried installing the latest libusb etc., but couldn't get my Epson 610 to work, so I happened on "vuescan" via google, installed their free version which saw my scanner and does the business. I would think that SuSE would have made certain their 2.6.x kernels worked with scanners. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.