Re: epson 1200U working but not usable

From: Karl Heinz Kremer (khk@khk.net)
Date: Sat Apr 15 2000 - 13:53:09 PDT

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    Were there any message from the USB sub system to the console?
    Was the "invalid argument" message displayed in a xscanimage window?

    Karl Heinz

    On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Aaron Krowne wrote:
    > Well thanks to Karl Kremer my epson 1200U now works.
    >
    > I thought it was working completely, however, I ran into some problems
    > after scanning a few things, and now the scanner will not work at all.
    >
    > I scanned about 3 things in xscanimage, then i got an "invalid argument"
    > message or something from xscanimage, and the scanner stopped working.
    >
    > The first time this happened, I fixed it by turning the scanner off,
    > then on.
    >
    > I was able to do another 1 or 2 scans before this happened again.
    > Turning it off and on fixed it.
    >
    > After one more preview scan, this happened again. This time i had to
    > remove the scanner.o driver and reload it to make it work.
    >
    > I got a portion of a preview scan in, before i got the "invalid
    > arugment" error again.
    >
    > This time, I had to remove scanner.o, usbcore.o, and usb-uhci.o and
    > reload them to even be able to see the scanner in /proc/bus/usb/devices,
    > and scanning will not work.
    >
    > Now my scanner.o module is stuck and will not remove because it claims
    > it is being used (i do not have xscanimage opened or anything).
    >
    > Any ideas?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Aaron Krowne
    >
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    Karl Heinz Kremer                                      khk@khk.net
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