[sane-devel] Re: Epson Stylus cx3200 MFP

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 14:24, LukenShiro wrote:
>Alle 20:03, mercoledì 4 dicembre 2002, Gene Heskett ha scritto:
>> And what kernel version was that?  I ask because I just had to
>> backup from 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc3 in order to print, all 4 ports
>> on the 2 hubs available externally are full here due to mouse,
>> ups, scanner and printer.  My mobo has another hub, but no front
>> panel buildout on it (yet)
>>
>> 2.4.20 wouldn't print come hell OR high water.  The /dev/usb/lp0
>> port was always busy.  Reboot to 2.4.20-rc3 and all is well
>> again.
>
>Strange, I'm using 2.4.20, really! and it works perfectly (BTW it
> worked also with 2.4.19)
>I wouldn't know if your problem depends by devfs (I have got rid
> of that, because I don't like it, at all) o not ...
>I've 2 hubs (4 usb ports), too, but I've only MFP as usb device,
> at the moment. Probably this device has to be alone on one hub,
> who knows? Is the long-timeout usb entry (I guess) in your kernel
> configuration enabled?

I don't think so, and I've never had to before.  It was strange in 
the way it did it too, the printer would feed a sheet, do half a 
line, and stop, 2 minutes later it spit out that page with half a 
line of text on it.  Cups always reported the /dev/usb/lp0 port was 
busy, and that it would retry in 30 seconds.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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