On Sonntag, 22. April 2007, JKD wrote: > El Sun, 22 de Apr de 2007, a las 11:13:15AM +0200, guido dom dijo: > > There must definitively be something fundamenally wrong with Feisty if such > > a number of users are experimenting problems with their scanner (Iam too > > with a canon N670U that is recognised but does not start). > > > > Both SANE and UBUNTU should, in my humble opinion, already have reacted with > > a patch or a solution (or an advice to buy another scanner!!!). > > > > May be it's not a SANE specific problem but kernel's experimental > changes and updated libraries that conflict with binary verions provided > by Ubuntu, and other distros. At least, testing with a backend (not > related to your scanner), the one provided by distro didn't work and > the same one compiled from SANE sources in Feisty worked like a charm. > > So one solution could be to compile SANE against current library versions > in each distro and after testing its funtionability, notify maintainers > to update their packages. > It is in fact a problem that has been introduced by the kernel-option CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND (which is marked as experimental). Disable that, recompile the kernel and the stuff should work. I also got some success reports, where libusb has been recompiled.
- Gerhard
