[sane-devel] Problem with Epslon 1650 + Kernel 2.4.3: no lamp off

Martin Weinberg martin.weinberg at comcast.net
Tue Feb 24 03:26:05 GMT 2004


Yes, but it has always done that.  E.g. if I hot plug it (or boot the
machine with the scanner plugged), the lamp comes on but then goes off
after some minutes of inactivity.

The _new_ behavior with kernel 2.6.3 is that the lamp never goes off.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:00:25PM -0500, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: 
> Does the lamp actually come on without you first scanning? Just probing  
> the scanner
> should not keep the lamp on. The scanner should be "smart" enough to  
> not keep
> the lamp on when it's not actually receiving the "start scan" command  
> during it's
> lamp timeout period.
> 
> Karl Heinz
> 
> 
> On Feb 23, 2004, at 9:55 PM, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> 
> >Yes, it does.  So I don't think this is a sane problem per se, but
> >some USB issue but since it is scanner related, I thought that someone
> >might have an idea.  E.g. will the kernel or some utility (hotplug)
> >keep trying to associate a module with the device since it is
> >unclaimed?




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