On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:07 +0000, David Fletcher wrote: > I've got an Epson Perfection 2450 photo scanner. > > I've been using it with my computer which is running FC3. It used to work > beautifully, apart from the slight quirk that I would have to start xsane, > shut it down then start it again (second time takes much longer) to get it to > work. > > A few days ago after some updates I think, it stopped working. > > Tried it on my son's computer yesterday, which is running FC4, but hadn't been > updated for some time, and it worked. > > Great. > > Updated his computer yesterday evening, tried to use the scanner just now, it > won't work on his computer either now. > > Not great. Now I can't scan at all. > > The error message when I try to start preview is "Failed to start scanner:- > Error during device I/O" > > Has anybody else had this trouble or much better know how to fix it? > > I did try google with the error message. Somebody thinks it might be to do > with libusb. Mine currently replies to > rpm -q libusb > with > libusb-0.1.8-3 If that is your error, my libusb is [jeff@eagle ~]$ rpm -q libusb libusb-0.1.10a-1 FC4 updated last night.
