On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:15 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:47 +0100, norman wrote: > > Those of you who have read the interchange earlier today between Alan > > Pope and myself may well have concluded that I was a bit up tight. You > > are quite right and this why. If you have the time have a look at > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/85488 > > > > You will see that the bug was first reported 2007-03-01 which, by my > > reckoning, was well before 7.04 was released. The list of reports goes > > on and on and on with the latest being a few hours ago. > > > > I want Ubuntu to succeed as much as anyone but I just feel that this is > > not the way to win friends and influence people. It means that either > > not being able to take advantage of the improvements in 7.04 or having > > to boot up windows just to scan. While I am scanning I am also printing > > and word processing so that is also using windows and I don't like it. > > > > Alan Pope provided a useful support avenue that would likely lead to you > being able to use your scanner under Ubuntu Feisty. > > Looking at the bug you have quoted, there are some work around methods > that will enable users to use their scanners until a fix is released. > > The launchpad 'Answers' section could help any new user to fix these > problems, or at least come to a suitable work around.
How I wish it were so. I am not a new user but I have not seen a 'fix' that I could understand or do. > > Your concerned with how this reflects upon Ubuntu itself, this same bug > has been found in both Gentoo and Debian, and likely any other distro > that uses the current 'stable' SANE (http://www.sane-project.org/) and > kernel 2.6.20-15 (with USB suspend enabled). > If you found that you had a similar problem in another proprietary OS, > can you say that there is a support method that is comparable to > 'Launchpad Answers'? No, of course I cannot, but at least there could have been a warning to be read when selecting to upgrade. Scanning is not for fun it is for work. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
