On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Alex Eftimie <alex at rosedu.org> wrote: > I'm having this problem: when I connect the scanner to the computer > for the first time, `scanimage -L` detects it correctly as a xerox > workcentre 3220. > > But: any further calls to `scanimage -L` raise: "No scanners were > found" and I'm unable to use it. > > If you can give me any hints, I would surely appreciate it. I've tried > setting various debug levels and watching scanimage logs, dmesg and > syslog. But nothing pops out. The scanner is still connected, appears > in `lsusb`, but `scanimage -L` won't find it. > > I'm using ubuntu 13.04 packages on an Acer Aspire v3 571 laptop. On my > desktop, with the same kernel and packages, I can't reproduce it. > Checking some foreign forums, I suspect the problem is related with > usb_suspend and/or incomplete usb 3 support in the laptop.
Bump! I see there are others facing similar problems with other backends and laptops. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2013-June/031321.html
