[sane-devel] Xsane can't find scanner - again, but this one is USB

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello Gernot,

On Oct 30 18:29 Gernot Hassenpflug wrote (excerpt):
> So the question one needs to keep in mind is not USB3 per se,
> but whether the xhci kernel module is being used.

Yes.

As far as I know (but I am neither a USB expert
nor a Linux kernel expert) - the xhci kernel module
is always used for USB3 and sometimes also for
what is labeled as USB2 on the computer.

As far as I know the reason why xhci is used for
what is labeled as USB2 on the computer is that
internally it is one same chip (or perhaps even only
a chip-like sub-component of a bigger hardware thingy).

When xhci is used it cannot be replaced by a
kernel module for traditional USB2, see
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920067#c23

Furthermore sometimes the xhci kernel module "just works"
and sometimes not depending on weird circumstances, see
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856794#c40


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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