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 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.
Jim
-- If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
