There's nothing in Kooka,and same goes to GIMP.

ok, change your canon_pp.conf to read 'ieee1284 lp0'
Reboot your machine and log in as root.

If your scanner doesn't show up in GIMP or Kooka, it is not being recognized for some reason I cannot understand...

It does not work.

Well, I'm sorry I am out of ideas here...

Like I said, I never got my parallel-port scanner to work (but it was not a Canon).
Interfacing through parallel ports can be frustrating under Linux, but I found some stories through Google from people who did get your FB330P working with Sane.

I don't think this is a specific Slackware problem.

There is a success-story here using a parallel port scanner on Fedora.

When I start xsane,the scanner did sound to calibrate but in the end,the scanner is not detected.

When I ran dmesg | grep port,the following happened;

parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

Actually,the port is lp0,or parport0?

Well, I *think* the port should be /dev/parport0 as defined in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules
But in a previous post you reported not having any device like /dev/parport*
Maybe your problem lies here...

I have two systems here, both with parallel ports not being used, both with usb printers.
One shows /dev/parport0, both show /dev/lp0
Why the other system doesn't show the /dev/parport0 I don't know. It never bothered me as I have no parallel port devices any more.

Maybe check your BIOS to see if there is anything to configure for the printerport.

I changed the parallel port mode in BIOS to IRQ7 to 5,and I get another error;


bash-3.1# scan -C
Canon CanoScan(tm) Scanner Driver 6.00. Copyright (C) 2001 Simon Krix et al.
This driver comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
please see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute
it under certain conditions.
See the GNU General Public License for details.

Finding IEEE1284 ports...
0x278 (0x278): <raw><cpt><nbl><byt><swe>... OK (ecp-swe).

Detecting scanner:
Scanner not ready (0xb). Attempting to reset...
Timeout: Scanner wakeup reply 1 (0x03 in 0x1f) - Status = 0x1f
Timeout: Read Data 1 (0x00 in 0x01) - Status = 0x07
Error 1
initialise: Could not init scanner.
Fatal: Unable to initialise scanner! (Code 1)

Any idea?

So the driver finds the port, but has problems communicating with the scanner.

Do you have any other Linux system available to test your scanner?
Everything indicates that it really should be simple with this model, but for some reason it just won't work

I replugged the scanner,but it's still the same.

But when it attempts to detect the scanner,the scanner did sound to calibrate but the result still stay stuck.

I checked the lsmod;

lp 13736 0
parport_pc 27812 1
parport 34760 2 lp,parport_pc

Will the modules conflict with each other?