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<h1>Re: Problems with sane &amp; AVA15xx</h1>
<b>Oliver Neukum</b> (<a href="mailto:neukum@fachschaft.org.chemie.uni-muenchen.de"><i>neukum@fachschaft.org.chemie.uni-muenchen.de</i></a>)<br>
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Matto Marjanovic wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; The kernel panics are troubling....</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; Another user who was asking me for advice discovered that his problems</i><br>
<i>&gt;  went away when he commented out the "dll.conf" entries for all but the</i><br>
<i>&gt;  correct backends (i.e. microtek, in his case).</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; I suspect that another backend (maybe microtek2?) was not being careful</i><br>
<i>&gt;  enough in its device identification, and harassing his scanner and/or</i><br>
<i>&gt;  scsi bus into a panic.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver:  you say "scanimage -L" only works when you are non-root.  If it</i><br>
<i>&gt;           only lists the pnm devices, then probably the /dev permissions</i><br>
<i>&gt;           kept it from poking at the SCSI bus.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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No, it listed nothing.It simply hung.<br>
permissions: crw-rw-rw-   1 root     disk      21,   0 Mar  5 00:52<br>
/dev/sg0<br>
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<i>&gt; -matt m.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; ps:  with regards to the AVA-1502:  evil crap.  my quality-of-life while</i><br>
<i>&gt;       doing scans has improved considerably since buying a US$80 Tekram</i><br>
<i>&gt;       PCI scsi card (390U, with a NCR53c875 controller in it).</i><br>
<i>&gt;      However, the original AVA-1502 *did* work while I used it.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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  Oliver<br>
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