Is USB Autosuspend on in the kernel?- I had the same problem. Turning autosuspend off fixed it on the LiDE 30's. I won't be surprised if these scanners don't like it.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Martin Ueding <list at martin-ueding.de> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I tried to use the new sane-backend from the Robert Ancell PPA as > described in the [ubuntuforums > post](http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10526638&postcount=31). > > According to that post, I should be able to scan with my Canon LiDE 200 > using the `sudo simple-scan` command. > > The first attempt to scan after attaching the scanner to the computer > (Apple iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, Ubuntu 10.10 32-Bit) yields some sounds > from the motor of the scanner, but the scanner head barely moves. The > terminal I launched simple-scan from displays the following message: > > ** (simple-scan:4209): WARNING **: Unable to start device: Error during > device I/O > > When I started another scan, it would do nothing and just block the > program for a while. > > Today, I tried the same on another computer (Asus Eee, Intel Atom, > Ubuntu 10.10 32-Bit), and I managed to scan one single page without any > errors. After that, simple-scan showed the message. > > I attached the `simple-scan -d` output of a first and a subsequent scan. > If there is anything else I can do to diagnose the problem, please let > me know. > > How can I get my scanner to work on either computer? > > > Regards, > > Martin > <debug-1.txt.gz> > <debug-2.txt.gz> > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org