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[Frank McCormick]

        I posted this problem on the sane-dev list but got no replies..maybe someone here ??
   	I am trying to get a Umax 2000p scanner to work with my Ubuntu installation. 
	ButI keep getting an error message which seems to indicate the SANE frontend or 
	maybe the backends were not compiled with an option.

	This is the error:

frank at ubuntu:~$ xsane
[umax_pp_low] sanei_umax_pp_InitPort cannot use direct hardware access
[umax_pp_low] if not compiled with --enable-parport-directio


	In googling the problem it seems there are 2 ways of accessing the parallel port directly or through ppdev. 		However when I load that module (sudo modprobe ppdev) I am no further ahead.

	I also tried downloading the sources and compiling but when it came to compiling the front end it failed because 	 it seems to think the backends have not been compiled, when in fact they have been. I am using Ubuntu Dapper and 	 Edgy but both give me the same error. 
	Anybody ??