On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:40 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > It often happens when I use my scanner that it hits a bug which leaves > > it in an open state and thus becomes unavailable until the system has > > been rebooted. > > > > Does a command exist which would take a device such as a scanner out of > > the open state? > > > > I am using sane-backends for avision version 1.0.15 and FC3 fully > > updated. The scanner is scsi attached as /dev/sg0. > > > > I had this happen before on really early versions of xsane. I used to > have to restart xsane and it would deactivate the scanner. I would then > close down xsane. I am actually using scanimage but if I start xsane it ends saying no scanner available. > > I don't have to do this now, but it worked when I did this before. You > might want to file a bug report regarding this problem either upstream > or in fedora bugtracking. I don't think this is appropriate. I am dealing with a bug which causes scanimage (or xsane for that matter) to terminate abnormally leaving the scanner in an open state and this bug is already reported. I just want to be able to get my scanner available again without having to reboot if this at all is possible. > -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
