[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
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[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
l be loaded at boot and then conflict with the > scanner? > As above - printer is hooked up to laptop which is then booted - scanning works fine. The printer is not set up on that machine. -- mike c -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130509/a2b7842f/attachment.html>

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
(answer at bottom) On Thu, 9 May 2013, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: > > As above - printer is hooked up to laptop which is then booted - > scanning works fine. The printer is not set up on that machine.? > > > When I plugged the printer back int

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
re-plugging the device and rebooting each time I don't know. If there was a workaround , say running a script, it would make life easier - but of course the "proper" solution is to have whatever code is the underlying cause of the issue properly fixed. I expect as you say that this is likely not an issue with sane but with device handling in one or other of the kernel/udev/systemd Thanks -- mike c -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130509/fde75c09/attachment.html>

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Cloaked
nable to open the device so I don't know how to proceed to get some definitive information about that is going wrong. Thanks for any help. -- mike c -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130509/2fc96ddc/attachment.html>

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread Theodore Kilgore
Hi Mike, I have been a subscriber to this list for years, but I have to give first a specific disclaimer. I am not a developer for sane, nor any regular contributor. But I have been active for years in the Gphoto project and also have written several kernel drivers for webcams. Most particularl

[sane-devel] Pulstek OpticBook 3800 - problems with openning device on 1.0.23+

2013-05-09 Thread Nikolay Shaplov
>what kind of changes have you done in the genesys backend ? I find >strange that I find this strange too. I added {0x07b3, 0x1300, &plustek_3800_model}, into Genesys_USB_Device_Entry genesys_usb_device_list[] and added static Genesys_Model plustek_3800_model = { "plustek-opticbook-380

[sane-devel] Help needed diagnosing strange failure to scan with Samsung SCX-4500W

2013-05-09 Thread m. allan noah
Try uninstalling or disabling your print driver, or anything else that might be trying to talk to the scanner. allan On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: >> >> I have a strange scanner failure to try to resolve, and I am h