canon fs 2710 unde linux?

Sebastian Ahrens (Sebastian.Ahrens@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:20:37 +0200

Hi folks,
I got one more question about scanners under linux. With the help Andy
(thanks!) I finally got a clue about how sane does itīs job. Unfortunately this
did not help any further with the actual problems. I wrote a canon.conf
containing a single line with the device where sane should look for a canon
scanner. The problem is that according to /proc/scsi/scsi both scanners (UMAX
Astra 1220 & Canon 2710) are known to the system . The Umax is working fine,
but if I choose the Canon scanner in the xscanimage-device-dialog, the window
pops up, and if I hit the "Aquire preview" button an error message appears
saying something about an I/O error. If I hit the same button another time
xscanimages freezes. After fiddling around with this for a while strange
effects appeared: The machine (Win98 & Linux are installed) is only booting one
out of 5 or 6 times. Sometimes it hangs after the scsi-devices are probed by
the controler (even before the lilo-menue) sometimes it freezes right after the
fsck etc. After several reboots I suddenly had nice little graphics on the
screen instead of bios-messages or the bootmessages...

I donīt have any experience with scsi-devices (itīs not my linux-box but the
one from a friend of mine) and therefore I do not know where to locate the
problem I obviously have. I think this must be a problem of the tecram
controler or the wires or what ever, but not of the sane-configuration?!

Thanks for any kind of help

regards

-Sebastian-

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