Hi,
The problem I have is with Kooka. I'm using Canon LiDE20 scanner, KDE 3.5.7 and Kooka 0.44 and Mandriva 2008.
When I do a preview scan the outline of an image shows up in the preview window but no image. When I do a final scan - no image or image number (usually it's "scan-001.bmp")
The interesting thing is that I have two users accouts on my machine and Kooka works just fine under another user.
So, it's not Kooka software or the scanner itself.
Is anything in the KDE user's account that can mess-up the Kooka?
help! My Kooka is coockoo!

If you do scanimage -L do you see valid output?

Are the other user and you both member of the scanner group?

jlinkels

i did scanimage -L and I got this (in a terminal window):

device `plustek:libusb:002:003' is a Canon N670U/N676U/LiDE20 USB flatbed scanner

I think this is correct, isn't it?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'scanner group".
Could tell me more about it?
As far as users - it's only two accounts and only I use them. One is for daily browsing, emails etc. and the other one is for my bills, banking and personal data. No instant messaging there!

thanks

If you enter groups on the command line you see the groups you are a member of. Usually it is something like sers cdrom audio video scanner camera

If you are not member of the scanner groups you should add yourself. As root enter:
But since scanimage -L runs succesfully it is unlikely that you are not member of the scanner group.

You could try to remove the kooka config file: /home/<yourusername>/.kde/share/config/kookarc

More rigorously you could try to remove all of KDE settings, which sometimes helps to solve these kind of fuzzy problems. That is
Do that as <yourusername>, NOT as root! When doing this, you'll loose everything you ever configured in KDE, like layouts, desktops, backgrounds, preferences, stored passwords, history etc. Not a big deal, but you should realize it.

It that doesn't help.... then I am in the dark as well.

jlinkels

I tried the first line (home/<yourusername>/.kde/share/config/kookarc) - didn't make any difference.
The second is not working at all ([code]rm -Rf /home/<yourusername>/.kdeCODE]).
I guess something's mising - please, check the syntax. thanks for your help.

Sorry, the code tags were misformed. The line should be correct now, in the blue box.

Remember you have to reconfigure everything in KDE for that user. (Not for the other one)

jlinkels

It worked, thank you. The Kooka works great now.
The only thing I lost and I can't retrieve is my email (Kmail).
Is it still stored somewhere, where I can restore it from?
I have a backup of the Kmail from almost a year ago but I wish I could keep the most recent emails..
any ideas?

ooops... totally forgot about that. Kmail mail storage directories is one of the best kept secrets as it seems. I don't use mail storage myself (I use exclusively IMAP) so I overlooked that.

I checked it, mail is stored somewhere deep down the ~/.kde/share/apps tree, so I am afraid it is gone.

Truly sorry about that.

jlinkels