plustek: Problems with Epson 1250 Photo and ImageScan! 1.3.0
Subject:
Re: Problems with Epson 1250 Photo and ImageScan! 1.3.0
From:
Sami Nieminen ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jun 2002 11:52:46 -0000
Message-Id: <20020613114146.GA4511@butthead.ton.tut.fi>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:23:10PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote:
> 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).
Thanks for the hint, seems to be the same place on Debian as well.
> > 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?
usb-uhci
> In any case try it with the other one.
Ok, I will try uhci.
> It could also be a good idea to go back to an official kernel instead
> of some pre release.
Yep, will try this as well.
> 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.
Ok.
Thanks for the hints of what could help, I am going to try these today after
work!
BR, Sami
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