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. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen