[sane-devel] Xerox 3220 USB problem

[Alex Eftimie]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Alex Eftimie <alex at rosedu.org> wrote:
> I'm having this problem: when I connect the scanner to the computer
> for the first time, `scanimage -L` detects it correctly as a xerox
> workcentre 3220.
>
> But: any further calls to `scanimage -L` raise: "No scanners were
> found" and I'm unable to use it.
>
> If you can give me any hints, I would surely appreciate it. I've tried
> setting various debug levels and watching scanimage logs, dmesg and
> syslog. But nothing pops out. The scanner is still connected, appears
> in `lsusb`, but `scanimage -L` won't find it.
>
> I'm using ubuntu 13.04 packages on an Acer Aspire v3 571 laptop. On my
> desktop, with the same kernel and packages, I can't reproduce it.
> Checking some foreign forums, I suspect the problem is related with
> usb_suspend and/or incomplete usb 3 support in the laptop.

Bump! I see there are others facing similar problems with other
backends and laptops.

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