[sane-devel] Failed to open device 'hp:/dev/scanner': Error during device I/O

abel deuring a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de
Sat, 06 Oct 2001 21:03:25 +0200


Jochen Streicher wrote:
> 
> "Failed to open device 'hp:/dev/scanner': Error during device I/O  "
> 
> This message I got using xscanimage (sane-1.04) and Kernel 2.4.0
> (shipped with SuSE Linux 7.1).
> 
> With kernel 2.2.18 the HP Scanjet IIcx works fine.
> 
> I built kernel 2.4.10 and sane-1.05 out of tarball ( to /usr/local ),
> but got same error message.
> 
> Is this a known issue with 2.4 kernel or is there a workaround ?

Jochen,

could you send the output from running [x]scanimage or xsane with the
evnironment variable SANEI_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=128 ?

Another question: Which SCSI adapter do you use?

Abel