Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:21:58 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: USB scanner issue (Was: Re: Beaver in Detox!) |
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:26:25AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:55:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [snip] > > I give you "Beaver in Detox", aka linux-2.6.0-test11. This is mainly > > brought on by the fact that the old aic7xxx driver was broken in -test10, > > and Ingo found this really evil test program that showed an error case in > > do_fork() that we had never handled right. Well, duh! > > I've found an odd problem that's in at least 2.6.0-test11. I've > reproduced this twice now with an Epson 1240 USB scanner > (0x04b8/0x010b). What happens is if I run xsane from gimp, acquire a > preview, start to scan and then cancel, the scanner becomes > unresponsive. If I try and quit xsane, it gets stuck. Unplugging / > replugging and then trying to kill xsane locked the machine up hard. > > Here's ver_linux, dmesg and the versions of gimp/xsane I'm running (I've > used the scanner during this boot, without trying to lock it up):
Can't you use xsane without the scanner kernel driver? I thought the latest versions used libusb/usbfs to talk directly to the hardware. Because of this, the USB scanner driver is marked to be removed from the kernel sometime in the near future.
thanks,
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