Scanner lock-ups

From: Timothy Little (tim@lilly-villa.little-possums.net)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 16:08:31 PDT

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    On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:40:05AM +0100, Collins, Martin wrote:
    > > Timothy Little [mailto:tim@lilly-villa.little-possums.net] wrote:
    > >
    > > Also, I have had a few cases
    > > where the scanner (or drivers) locked up and SANE refused to work
    > > until I reset my computer. Is there a way to reset the drivers or
    > > devices without rebooting?
    >
    > I sometimes get this with my Mustek. I find killing the xsane process
    > and power cycling the scanner is sufficient to get it working again.
    > No need to reboot.

    Unfortunately this usually fails with my scanner. "scanimage -T"
    doesn't even recognise that the scanner exists, and hangs for a minute
    or so. Maybe there's something wrong with the underlying USB device
    drivers.

    - Tim

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