[sane-devel] Restarting scanner

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > I'm copying this answer to sane-devel because I guess that's what you
> > intended to do anyway :-)

Well, I'm doing that again. Or is there any reason to send your
answers to me and not to the list? There may be better answers than
mine.

> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:22:42PM +0200, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> > > > Which version of sane-backends (scanimage --version)?
> > > Not sure how to get that info but this is the version of Xsane that I
> > > downloaded from Debian.org: xsane 0.90-3
> > 
> > The version of xsane isn't important. The version of the backends
> > (drivers) is interesting. I pointed you to how to get it in brackets
> > (scanimage --version). You could also use apt-cache show libsane for
> > Debian.
> nigel at nigels_box:~$ scanimage --version
> bash: scanimage: command not found

It's in sane-utils. If you don't need scanimage (command line
frontends) or sane-find-scanner you won't need that.

> nigel at nigels_box:~$ apt-cache show libsane
> Version: 1.0.11-2

Ok, that's latest. I hope that's the one you have installed.

> Version: 1.0.7-3.2

That ooold :-)

> > Maybe scanimage and sane-find-scanner isn't installed? apt-get install
> > sane-utils
> root at nigels_box:/home/nigel# apt-get install sane-utils
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package sane-utils has no available version, but exists in the database.

How did you install SANE? If you use sid or woody/testsing and the
packages from Aurelian you should have this package.

> T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  5 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
> P:  Vendor=04a5 ProdID=20b0 Rev= 1.20
> S:  Manufacturer=Color
> S:  Product= FlatbedScanner 23
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=100mA
> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=usbscanner

Looks fine.

> I hope the above isn't too much info ;-)

There is no such thing as too much info :-)

If I understand you cirrectly, there is no problem, and the scanner
just takes some time to respond to commands after plug-in. Rebooting
gives enough time so you don't notice it in this case.

Bye,
  Henning