[sane-devel] Re: scanner not recognised part II

[m. allan noah]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Paul Frisson wrote:

> Checked /var/log/messages in which I found no clue about the unloading the 
> driver. (can't paste the lines here because apparently I need to be logged as 
> root to read that file, is ther something like 'su' in graphical mode ? - I 
> don't feel it yet using 'vi' in text mode).

uh, open a terminal, 'su -', give root passwd, and vi the file. then you 
can cut from that window into your mail client, and you have as few 
programs as possible running as root. if you dont like vi, you could try 
pico or jed, or emacs.

> 
> Solved the problem with, as you said, some silly magic (modprobe in rc.local), 
> but feel a bit frustrated not understanding where the driver goes after 
> having been loaded.

if you remove the scsi driver right now by hand, 'rmmod modulename', and 
then run 'dmesg', do you see any messages at the end about the removal?

allan

> 
> Thank you for helping.
> 
> PF
> 
> 
> >when the driver is unloaded, it may say something. so you could go back
> >thru your /var/log/messages, and see where this happens. there may be some
> >clue on the preceding lines about why this happened.
> >
> >if the kernel is automatically booting the module (because it believes it
> >is unused) then you may be able to add a parameter to modules.conf to tell
> >the kernel not to do this.
> >
> >otherwise, you may have to do some silly magic like put your 'modprobe'
> >command in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is a shell script that is
> >run at the end of system init.
> >
> >allan
> 
> 

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