[gentoo-user] Re: Scanner Trouble - Solved (I think)

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

Hi all,

I honestly don't know what I did.  I was playing around checking
different settings and now xsane works fine.

Sorry for the bother.

Regards,

Colleen

C. Beamer wrote:

>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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