Re: How can I get sane to recognise my scanner if I turn it on AFTERthe PC?

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 08:38:51 PST

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    John Gay wrote:

    > I've been using sane for quite some time and overall, I find it to be quite
    > good. I've had several problems, but most of these were due to my newness to
    > Linux. I do have one problem that is still bothering me.
    >
    > When I turn on my scanner before my PC, sane, xsane etc all work as advertised.
    > If I don't turn on my scanner first, I can use
    >
    > echo "scsi-add-device 0 0 2 0"> /proc/scsi/scsi
    >
    > as root to enable my scanner, and a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi shows that the
    > scanner is recognised, however sane, xsane xsanimage all quit with a
    > segmentation fault. Most of the times, I just make sure my scanner is on first,
    > if I'm going to be using my scanner, but I'd like to have the option to enable
    > my scanner rather than having to re-boot.
    >
    > Has anyone got any ideas?
    >

    the command you use to add the scanner after the sci module has been loaded is
    correct and should work fine.

    I don`t know why you get segfaults in that case, take a look at the system logfiles.

    Bye
    Oliver

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