Re: Sane-Mandrake scsi timeout

From: DStevenson (tech@dgssoftware.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 18:28:28 PDT

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    On Friday 22 June 2001 16:13, you wrote:
    > DStevenson wrote:
    > > Hi all,
    > >
    > > I have been folowing the SANE and Mandrake saga. I have had sane 1.0.4
    > > installed and have only been able to scan gray mode. Color only gives a
    > > IO problem. Mandrakes cooker now has version 1.0.5 of the sane RPM's as
    > > well as version 0.78 of xsane. However, once I have removed the old
    > > software and re-installed with the lastest version, scanimage -V still
    > > reports 1.0.4. Is there a simple explanation?
    >
    > Hi Dave,
    >
    > the explaination is simple: sane-1.0.5 has not been released.
    > May be they took a CVS snapshot (pre-1.0.5), these versions
    > still have the name sane-1.0.4
    >
    > Bye Oliver
    Does anyone have any idea why scanimage spawns a child process which is
    identical to itself?

    I have just noticed it and the screen dump is shown below.

    david 1064 1063 0 21:22 pts/1 00:00:00 sh -c /usr/bin/scanimage
    --device hp:/dev/sga --brightness 50 --resolution 300 > /home/davi
    david 1065 1064 0 21:22 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/bin/scanimage --device
    hp:/dev/sga --brightness 50 --resolution 300
    david 1066 1065 0 21:22 pts/1 00:00:00 /usr/bin/scanimage --device
    hp:/dev/sga --brightness 50 --resolution 300

    Emmmhhh??? David.

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