plustek: Problems with Epson 1250 Photo and ImageScan! 1.3.0
Subject:
Re: Problems with Epson 1250 Photo and ImageScan! 1.3.0
From:
Reinhard Max ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jun 2002 11:34:24 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0206131309140.2857-100000@wotan.suse.de>
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 at 12:30, Sami Nieminen wrote:
> I then removed scanner module and reloaded it this time with
> 'modprobe scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010f' and still I got that
> usb.agent telling that no modules for product..
That's no problem. As long as you load the module by hand and let it
know wich vendor and product IDs to take care of the USB agent doesn't
need to know.
If you want the agent to load the module as soon as you plug in the
scanner, you need to add an entry for it to /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap
(this applies to SuSE Linux, I don't know where this stuff resides on
Debian).
> Now I tried to start iscan, it took minutes and nothing happened. In the
> meantime, I got the following messages on /var/log/messages:
>
[...]
>
> Finally my usb mouse stopped responding, and I had to reboot to get
> it working again. I tried the same procedure several times, but
> always got those timeout messages on log and finally mouse stopped
> working each time and had to reboot.
I had similar problems when I first tested the plustek stuff.
Sometimes it can be brought to work again without a rebott by
switching over to a text console and reloading the USB modules.
Which hardware module are you using, uhci or usb-uhci?
In any case try it with the other one.
It could also be a good idea to go back to an official kernel instead
of some pre release.
BTW, up to now I was only successful with sane-1.0.6, but I haven't
yet tried it with a plain 1.0.7.
> Today I will try plustek backend. Btw, does it matter if I have the
> backend installed in /usr/local/ prefix while debian installs
> libsane stuff in /usr/ prefix? I did this with iscan, could it cause
> problems?
As long as you don't get any error messages regarding shared
libraries, that can't be found, it should be fine.
cu
Reinhard
