On Thursday 15 September 2005 02:20, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> >On Tuesday 13 September 2005 17:54, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>On Tuesday 13 Sep 2005 12:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> >>>After installing 2006 RC1 and doing tons of upgrades from
> >>>cooker my Epson 2400 Photo stopped working. The scanner is
> >>>detected as Epson in harddrake and usbview (libusb:004:002).
> >>>
> >>>Nonetheless xsane can't find it. Services haldaemon and
> >>>messagebus are running, but udev doesn't appear in the
> >>> services list. (I think hotplug is obsolete in 2006).
> >>
> >>Have you checked or filed a bug report, Kaj?
> >>(http://qa.mandriva.com) It certainly needs bringing to the
> >>developers' attention if they don't already know about it. A
> >> lot of us use Epson scanners.
> >
> >Not yet, Anne. Not sure if it's a bug in software or my even
> > softer brain. But I remember a lot of troubles with my USB
> > devices, like external hard drives, mp3 players, cameras and
> > this scanner. After hours - or days - of messing around I got
> > everything working, but not this time. I intend to use a bit
> > of my sparse time to fool around some more before i submit a
> > bug report. But,
> >eventually.......
> >
> >Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Hi
>
> I too was having heaps of probs with USB devices, I have heaps of
> the little toys to play with.
>
> In the end I found a simple way to let Mandriva do it for me.
>
> I simply have the device either switched off or disconnected
> while I boot into Mandriva, then once in ~ plug it in.
>
> This might not work for you but since my first 2.6 kernel I've
> yet to have it fail.
>
> Actual blew my boss away when after a half hour of getting WinXP
> sorted to recognise his new camera, I simply turned it on after
> booting back to Mandriva 2005 LE and had a popup ask if I wanted
> to import within 2 seconds. Nice one.
>
> Sometimes to simple ways take the hassle out of life.
>
> Hope it works for you.
Well, sort of. I am on cooker, so things change almost on an hourly
basis. I finally got xsane working, but only after messing around
with innumerable packages, so I cant' give any valuable advice, I'm
afraid. Right now even my camera and external hard drive works OK
after editing /etc/fstab, but I'll probably have to do it every
time I use them <sigh>. In 2005 an icon popped up when inserting a
USB device. Not so anymore, but they are mounted, nevertheless.
I noticed one important thing, though : when doing automated
updates the servers often want to install something which conflict
with already installed packages. Just skip those packages and
continue with a manual install of the rest. Primitive, but it
works.
Now, having a usable system, I think I'll wait with the next updates
a few days. I simply don't have the time required, alas.
Kaj Haulrich.
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