Andy Green:
Have you tried running your scanner software as root?
Ric Moore:
Sane will bitch about it every time you do that. Annoying as Hell. Stallman's ghost is in there into perpetuity. ;) Ric
Try running xirc as root. ;-) There is a very real, and big, risk with going on IRC as root, and the warning is appropriately strong. I seem to recall it actually includes an insult. ;-)