How to close devices which have been left open?

[Jim Cornette]

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 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


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