"Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed a second prozessor and turned SMP support on
> in my linux-2.2.16. Since then (x)scanimage refusing to work.
> gimp and other stuff just running fine++;-)
> (x)scanimage seem to go in an endless loop not consuming a lot
> of resources but nearly hanging X and any consoles or even network
> connections very slow then.
>
> Booting an old non-SMP kernel p.ex. 2.2.9 and things start
> working again. (sorry, I do not yet have a working 2.2.16 nonSMP)
>
> Is this a known problem with SMP or with 2.2.16 ?
> Did anyone see same problems ? Is there a solution besides booting my
> old kernel every time I wanna scan ? (I would like to uptime that
> machine)
>
> If someone wants to ananlyse that and fix it I would be glad and send
> her/him the requested configure options and trace output seperatly but
> not to the list.
>
> (if this was already disucussed on the list I apologize for posting
> but I have not seen any similar problem in the list archive of the
> last three months quickly looking over the subjects.
> BTW some search function would be nice there ;-) ).
Could you supply more information please? For example: SCSI, USB
or parallel port, if SCSI which adapter and driver, which scanner
... When the failure occurs could you execute 'ps -eo cmd,wchan'
and send the output to me.
Doug Gilbert
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