On Monday 19 May 2003 15:20, rob wrote: >Hi, > >I've just discovered that scanning crashes the usb system. What I > get in syslog is this message: > >May 19 19:53:03 samantha kernel: uhci.c: a400: host system error, > PCI problems? >May 19 19:53:03 samantha kernel: uhci.c: a400: host controller > halted. very bad > >Getting any more info is tricky as both my keyboard and mouse are > usb. > >It's probably been a couple of months at least since I last > scanned something so it's hard to know when the problem started > prior to that it's been working great for at least 6 months. > >I'm running debian sid. 2.4.20. libsane 1.0.11. The scanner is > the perfection 2450 photo. The crash happens after a couple of > minutes of use. It happens with both the uhci and usb-uhci. With > uhci the scanner continues to scan fine with usb-uhci it locks > the scanner up too. I don't have any other firewire devices to > test with.
It might be your motherboard, older via chipsets would do that quite regularly, or even totally freeze the machine in mid-scan. > >The command used is: > >scanimage --focus-position 'Focus 2.5mm above glass' --source >'Transparency Unit' --mode gray --film-type 'Negative Film' -x > 25mm -y 35mm -l 8.5mm -t 3.3mm --format pnm --resolution 2400 > --depth 16 > filmNoir13.pnm > >If I can give any more info let me know. > >Thanks -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
