[sane-devel] Linotype X-ray Scanner

Steven Lembark lembark@wrkhors.com
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:03:47 -0600


-- Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de>

> The lamp control is done in the scanner.
> When the lamp has turned on then the lamp
> needs some time to create a stable illumination.
> There is no way for the backend to find out if the
> lamp just has been turned on or not.
>
> I do not think that the status of the lamp has anything to do with
> the freeze of your system. May be you have a problem with the
> scsi controller driver or the scsi bus or termination.

Thinking back to the BusLogic scanner bug, the only fix
may be to kick the scanner with external code and eyeball
it to determine if the lamp is ready.


--
Steven Lembark                               2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing                       Chicago, IL 60647
                                            +1 800 762 1582