On 5/2/05, Erik P. Olsen <erik@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Try KDiskFree or KwikDisk - they are in the red hat menu under system tools. Dotan Cohen http://Song-Lirics.com/ http://Song-Lyriks.com/
