[sane-devel] scan lines

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:27:12AM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> i had the scanner replaced and all is well.  on a different note, any
> idea why i get this error in /var/log/messages several dozen times at
> the beginning of each scan?
> 
>     Sep 24 23:40:23 roo kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(9): Unable to
>         access minor data

SANE tries to open all the device files that may represent scanners,
e.g. /dev/usb/scanner9 in this case. The kernel scanner driver is just
a bit verbose and tells that there is no scanner at that device file.
In later kernel versions I have disabled that message.

It doesn't harm, it may just slow down the detection of scanners a
bit. If you want to reduce the amount of messages you get, you can
delete some of the device files, e.g. /dev/usb/scanner1 ... scanner15
if you only have one scanner.

Bye,
  Henning