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Re: [LUG] Q's: Scanning & Cups



On Monday 10 May 2004 16:15, frank black wrote:
(The cups problem is a bit more basic so might want to scroll down)

1) Scanning. Anyone using USB and thinking of 2.6 may find some of this
stuff useful for the future:

 I don't know if any of you guys have tried scanning on the 2.6 kernel
but it's proving a nightmare for me.

I thought it was too good to be true.

After upgrading to 2.6 I was surprised how well everything was working... 
but then until I read your message I had not tried the scanner :-(

I have run out of time tonight to try to figure this out completely so here 
for the benefit of anyone else who might be tackling this are my 
experiences so far with debian testing/unstable.

Firstly made sure that all the sane packages were installed - including 
sane-utils

with that I could run scanimage as root only.

Edited /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner to comment out the "secure" option 
which sets the device ownership to root:scanner 0660 and uncommented the 
less secure option "chmod 0666".

Now I can run scanimage as a normal user.  Which leaves two problems.  
Every GUI scanning app (xscanimage, xsane) eventually (see below) finds 
the scanner but refuses to operate it, telling me that the device is busy!

It takes a whole minute to look for devices (as in "scanimage -L").  This 
seems to involve the following lines appearing in /var/log/messages

May 10 21:26:04 elvira kernel: usb 1-2.1: bulk timeout on ep2in
May 10 21:26:04 elvira kernel: usbfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 5 ep 0x82 
len 1 ret -110

Hmm... Something to sleep on.

Cheers

Tony





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