Re: HP Scanner causes machine to freeze

["John M. Mills" <jmills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Adam Williams wrote:
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> 	I have the sane-1.00-1 RPM installed,  and when I try scanimage -d
> hp:/dev/sgb or scanimage -d hp:/dev/scanner (a sym-link to /dev/sgb) the system
> freezes and I have to COLD boot in order to get it back.  I have tried settign
> the Debug levels to 128 and scanimage -d hp:/dev/scanner -h and a bunch of
> cryptic stuff spits up on the screen but I can't capture the output as the
> system freezes before any of it gets written to the disk.

I don't know if this is related, as I'm using different versions of almost
everything than you are, but I found my low-rent SCSI card (aha1502e) had
to be loaded manually before invoking any scanner activity, else I
sufferred the heartbreak of lockup.  You may check this by running the
appropriate 'insmod' as 'su' before attempting to access the scanner.
Naturally this seems less likely in that your init log shows successful ID
of the scanner, but it's easy to check.  I force-load the module at init,
then pull and reinsert it if I wish to turn off my [HP 4p] scanner.

Just a thought.

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