[sane-devel] mustek parallel scanner stopped working since adding epson printer

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:07:24PM +0000, Jim George wrote:
> 	I've been trying to add an Epson Stylus Photo 810 printer on my usb
> port, however this is has proved problemeatic so I defaulted to parallel
> and all seemed well.
> 
> 	However now I'm having problems scanning (see error message and debug
> output below).  I'm not sure if it's me or what?

If you use the same port for the scanner and printer: "Note also that
the backend does not support parport sharing , i.e. if you try
printing while scanning, your computer may crash." (from man
sane-mustek_pp). Maybe this bites you.

Bye,
  Henning