[sane-devel] plustek opticpro U12

[Jethro Tull]

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> From: heavytull at hotmail.com
> To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:28:34 +0000
> Subject: [sane-devel] plustek opticpro U12
>
> I'm using sane v. 1.0.24 with xsane v. 0.998, the default packages in slackware 14.1. My scanner is a Plustek opticpro U12.
> $ lsusb
> [ ...]
> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 07b3:0001 Plustek, Inc. OpticPro 1212U Scanner
> [...]
>
> While it seems to work very fine in windows, it almost does't work at all in linux.
>
> First, sometimes I  can't access it as a user but only super user and sometimes I can as a user. While I set the permissions as they should be done with my linux distribution.
>
> Second, once sane found the device and I run "preview" I can hear a very brief bsound of an attempt for a move of the trolley and then it suddenly hangs and I can't close xsane. I need to kill the process from a terminal. In the past, 2 to 3 yrs back it was always working nicely in linux.
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In fact the problem comes from a hub through which I was using the scanner.