Hello I have previously had xsane etc working on my scanner, but had an acciden= t and=20 have to do some reinstalling. (No backups - accident happened while tryin= g to=20 get a cd writer working .... ironic really...) Now I cannot get my scanne= r=20 working properly again.
It seems like a very precise problem, so I hope someone can easily pinpoi= nt=20 it: I do a scan preview, and this works well. Then I do an actual scan, and t= his=20 fails. By "fails", I mean: the scanner jolts a bit and after a while I ge= t=20 "usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout" in my console output. I have to restart l= inux=20 to get the scanner available again. So I did some experiments: (a) I can do as many scan previews, one after the other, as I like - they= all=20 work.=20 (b) I can do as many actual scans as I like, one after the other - they a= ll=20 work. (c) I can do an actual scan followed by a preview - they both work. So it *only* when I do a preview followed by an actual. I have said this is a new problem since I reinstalled things. That is not= =20 quite true. It now happens 100% of the time; before it was a very occasio= nal=20 problem.=20 When I do sane-find-scanner, it sees my scanner, which is at /dev/usbscan= ner.=20 (Oddly, if I do that as root, it finds my scanner twice: once as=20 /dev/usbscanner and once as /dev/usb/scanner0.) Installation info: The scanner is HP 2100C Scanjet My kernel is 2.4.10-4GB sane backends 1.0.8-5 sane-frontends 1.0.8-4 xsane 0.84-8 (after this version there are a lot of dependencies that I d= o not=20 have, and some are quite large to download, so I do not want to use them = if I=20 can avoid it) Any clues, please? Thanks Steve
