[sane-devel] Restarting scanner

[Nigel Ridley]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:12:28 +0100
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning at meier-geinitz.de> wrote:

> 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.
Sorry - I hit 'reply' instead of 'reply all'
> 
> > > 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.
Yes, it's the latest available from sid.
> 
> > Version: 1.0.7-3.2
> 
> That ooold :-)
Ok. I just upgraded Sane from sid - it is now  v. 1.0.10-1
> 
> > > 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.
see above.
> 
> > 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.
I reckon so.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning

Thanks again!

Blessings,

Nigel

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