[gentoo-user] Scanner Trouble

["C. Beamer" <cbeamer@interlynx.net>]

Hi,

When I first installed Gentoo on my main machine about a month ago, my
scanner was working just fine.  I don't use it that much, but today when
I went to use it (using xsane), I got a message that no devices were found.

I checked dmesg and as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be
anything wrong.

The only thing that I did that might have affected it (although it
doesn't seem to have affected anything else) is:

emerge --update --deep mozilla-firefox  (because there was an updated
Firefox package)

When I did this, emerge updated 26 packages including some x packages,
so I don't know if this is what is causing the problem.

The scanner works in Window - I tested it to be sure that it wasn't a
scanner problem.

Additionally, I used to have this problem when I ran FC4 all the time. 
I have a USB printer, zip drive and game pad all connected to my system
and all work fine.  The scanner is USB as well and in FC4, I used to
always have to remove the usb cable and plug it back in again and then I
could get xsane to recognize the scanner.  However, I tried that and had
no luck.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen
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