On Tuesday 28 May 2002 08:58 am, Major A wrote: >Hi Erik, > >> I was able to get one scan out of this installation, which >> makes me thinking it should work in some kind of way. But all >> the other times I tried to scan a picture or to aquire a >> preview the xscanimage command just hangs and could not be >> killed anymore. > >Hmmm. Someone else has seen this before, still don't know the >answer. The big question, I think, is whether it works with >VueScan. Have you tried that? If it doesn't, then this is a > hardware problem. > >> scanner.c: open_scanner(0): Scanner device is already open > >Could you try disabling all backends in dll.conf other than > coolscan2? > >> scanner.c: open_scanner(6): Unable to access minor data >> scanner.c: open_scanner(7): Unable to access minor data > >I had this recently with an EPSON USB scanner. Reason: flaky USB >contact on the PC side.
I have such an older via chipset mobo, a TYAN S-1590. Runs a USB mouse, but the scanner was a total, hardware reset to recover, lockup. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 98.96+% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a hillbilly
