[sane-devel] Suse-Kernel 2.6.5 and umax astra 1220 S

[abel deuring]

Wolfram Heider wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> when I recently updated from Suse 8.2 (2.4er kernel)  to Suse 9.1 with kernel 
> 2.6.5, my scanner, a UMAX Astra 1220 S which had worked well troughout all 
> the kernel-versons of the last years, was gone without the slightest trace.  
> scanimage -L, sane-find-scanner and the other little helpers remainend silent 
> about it.
> Maybe it's not a really sane-problem but a controller-problem.

yes, it's most likely a problem in the Linux SCSI system. To look for 
SCSI scanners, sane-find-scanner reads /proc/scsi/scsi, and the contents 
of this proc file is "managed" by the SCSI system of the kernel.

> The controller in use is a Dawicontrol DC-2975-C which connected till now over 
> the sym53c8xx/ncr53c8xx-module.
> The strange thing is that with the kernel 2.6.1 of the knoppix 
> 3.4-distribution everthing works as usual.
> The Suse-Kernel still comes with the sym53c8xx-module, but something seems to 
> be wrong with it.

Are you sure that the sym/ncr53c8xx module is indeed loaded? And if it 
loaded, do you get any error messages in /var/log/messages?

The sym/ncr53c8xx drivers offer many parameters; perhaps it helps to 
play with some of them. The file
<kernel source dir>/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx describes these 
parameters quite detailed.

Abel