Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 02:20, SnapafunFrank wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 17:54, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 13 Sep 2005 12:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
After installing 2006 RC1 and doing tons of upgrades from
cooker my Epson 2400 Photo stopped working. The scanner is
detected as Epson in harddrake and usbview (libusb:004:002).
Nonetheless xsane can't find it. Services haldaemon and
messagebus are running, but udev doesn't appear in the
services list. (I think hotplug is obsolete in 2006).
Have you checked or filed a bug report, Kaj?
(http://qa.mandriva.com) It certainly needs bringing to the
developers' attention if they don't already know about it. A
lot of us use Epson scanners.
Not yet, Anne. Not sure if it's a bug in software or my even
softer brain. But I remember a lot of troubles with my USB
devices, like external hard drives, mp3 players, cameras and
this scanner. After hours - or days - of messing around I got
everything working, but not this time. I intend to use a bit
of my sparse time to fool around some more before i submit a
bug report. But,
eventually.......
Kaj Haulrich.
Hi
I too was having heaps of probs with USB devices, I have heaps of
the little toys to play with.
In the end I found a simple way to let Mandriva do it for me.
I simply have the device either switched off or disconnected
while I boot into Mandriva, then once in ~ plug it in.
This might not work for you but since my first 2.6 kernel I've
yet to have it fail.
Actual blew my boss away when after a half hour of getting WinXP
sorted to recognise his new camera, I simply turned it on after
booting back to Mandriva 2005 LE and had a popup ask if I wanted
to import within 2 seconds. Nice one.
Sometimes to simple ways take the hassle out of life.
Hope it works for you.
Well, sort of. I am on cooker, so things change almost on an hourly
basis. I finally got xsane working, but only after messing around
with innumerable packages, so I cant' give any valuable advice, I'm
afraid. Right now even my camera and external hard drive works OK
after editing /etc/fstab, but I'll probably have to do it every
time I use them <sigh>. In 2005 an icon popped up when inserting a
USB device. Not so anymore, but they are mounted, nevertheless.
I noticed one important thing, though : when doing automated
updates the servers often want to install something which conflict
with already installed packages. Just skip those packages and
continue with a manual install of the rest. Primitive, but it
works.
Now, having a usable system, I think I'll wait with the next updates
a few days. I simply don't have the time required, alas.
Kaj Haulrich.
If I could extend this topic a little:
Is there a way of once having updated /etc/fstab, on having the device
recognised by the system, of then opening the preferred program to
handle the requirements of the now connected device ?
Take my mention earlier of the boss's camera. Once the photo,s were
imported, I needed to fire up kuickshow and set that up as a desktop
shortcut with the default directory being where the photos are imported
to. The boss just wanted something to point and click to.
The point here is that at present, if I insert a blank dvd or cd into
the reader/writer ~ k3b fires up nicely.
Back in the days of manually installing udev I was able to ( sometimes )
have a particular usb device recognised by its own name and have it
mounted within /mnt by my preferred name.
Just wondered if that can now be extended to actually open up a
preferred program ????
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Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always!
Regards
SnapafunFrank
Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve.
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