Scanner has just stopped working
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jan 9 20:27:32 UTC 2006
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 at eagle ~]$ rpm -q libusb
libusb-0.1.10a-1
FC4 updated last night.
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