[sane-devel] Normal or destructive behaviour when starting SANE?

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:39:31PM +0100, Melanie wrote:
> On 2003.03.14 14:00 Alisdair wrote:
> >1. The scanner spends about 15 seconds making rather worrying grinding 
> >noises (the scan head does not move at this time);
> 
> I have the same scanner and I cannot reproduce your problem. With my 
> system, the scanner will start up by blinking it's light and not move the 
> head at all. The first head movement is the start of scanning.
> I am using the "scanner" kernel module, not libusb.

Maybe the difference is different firmaware?

Bye,
  henning