Problem with xsane and printer

[Bill Baker]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:35 -0400, Bill Baker wrote:
> Has this ever happened to anyone else?
> 
> Every time I start xsane, I lose the ability to print to my printer and
> I have to reboot my computer to regain the ability to print.  Both the
> printer and the scanner are daisy chained off of the parallel port.
> First in the chain is the scanner, which is an HP ScanJet 3200C and the
> printer is an HP DeskJet 812C.  I've tried restarting CUPS and even
> deleting and re-adding the printer, but those don't seem to work.  Does
> anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> The software versions I'm using are:
> sane-backends 1.0.15-9
> xsane 0.95-3
> cups 1.1.23-15.1
> 

Never mind, I figured it out.  The module ppdev was interfering with my
ability to print.  I simply stopped cups, rmmod'ed ppdev along with lp,
parport_pc and parport, then modprobed lp, parport_pc and parport and
then restarted cups.