Re: sane 1.0.2 - strangeness

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Pierre Fortin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The other day, I used my UMAX 2400S scanner to make some copies using
> the "xerox" script.
>
> Today, I wanted to copy some papers; but when I issued the command, I
> could only get:
>
> $ xerox
> scanimage: open of device umax:/dev/scanner failed: Invalid argument
> pnmtops: EOF / read error reading magic number
> lpr: stdin: empty input file
>
>
> Then, to have a quick look at the bus, I ran xcdroast, clicked on
> SCSI/IDE-Info, exited and the scanner now works again...
>
> Huh..?? Looks like xcdroast is able to return the bus to a known state
> while sane does not...

If the sg driver is not loaded when you call scanimage the device sometimes is not found.
Try xerox again, may be that helps.

Bye
Oliver

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