[sane-devel] Restarting scanner

joe hill joehill@sympatico.ca
22 Feb 2003 00:07:15 -0500


I am pretty green myself, but I believe "modprobe scanner" might work?

You need to enter that as root.


On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:22, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > Everything works ok but if I unplug the scanner, either the power or the
> > USB, then when I try to start Xscan again it can't find the *device*. I
> > have to re-boot the computer to get it to work again (something which I
> > loathe to do).
> 
> I just joined the list to ask an almost identical question ::-)
> 
> Also have the same problem, same setup, same scanner.  But, it's enough
> to kill the scanner if the machine is put into sleep mode with "apm -s".
> 
> *However*, the machine doesn't go to sleep by itself with the scanner
> hooked up.  I've read I may need ACPI enabled for that, so this could be
> related.
> 
> Thanks for any tips!
> 
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