My scanner has stopped working in Linux?!
I have *been* successfully using my scanner in Linux. I have an Agfa
Snapscan 310 (SCSI) and it worked fine with the Gimp and SANE. Recently,
however, it has just stopped responding. I go to 'preview' and the
scanner light starts blinking and never stops until I switch off the
scanner. I am currently using Gimp 1.0.4-1 and SANE 0.74-2. The most
recent version of SANE (1.00-1) has *never* worked for me.
I am assuming something has broken SANE - most likely with recent kernel
compilations. I am currently using 2.2.6 on Debian 2.0. The scanner is
successfully recognised on bootup:
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: aha152x: processing commandline: ok
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1
controller(s)
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140,
IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled,
synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver;
$Revision: 1.7 $
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE
ATAPI devices
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: Vendor: AGFA Model: SNAPSCAN 310
Rev: 1.90
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: Type: Scanner
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: Detected scsi generic sga at scsi0, channel
0, id 2, lun 0
May 4 21:13:15 scgf kernel: scsi : detected total.
Please tell me if you spot anything wrong here.
I did upgrade to Slink using an official Debian CD - do you think
something broke here? The trouble is I just can't remember at what stage
the scanner worked - was it before I upgraded to Debian 2.1, before I
upgraded to the 2.2 kernel, oh hell!!!
Incidently I booted into Windows 98 and the scanner worked perfectly
well.
Any help would be *very* much appreciated.
Take care.
--
Phillip Deackes
gsmh@gmx.net
Debian Linux v.2.1
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