thanks for your answer but I gave away that scanner so this is no longer a practical issue for me
________________________________ From: Thomas Hotz <thomas.h...@gmail.com> To: desdefu...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:00 AM Subject: [Bug 173393] Re: canoscan FB330P starts scan, then stalls Is this still an issue for you? Which Ubuntu version do you use? Thank you for telling us! ** Changed in: xsane (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173393 Title: canoscan FB330P starts scan, then stalls Status in “xsane” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: xsane Start xsane, press any one of [preview], [scan], [calibrate], can hear the scanner head moving as normal for about 2 or 3 seconds, then nothing. At this point the xsane dialogs can be repositioned but their contents do not redraw. After about 10 minutes the scanner head can be heard moving back to park (I assume). Xsane is still not responsive and must be [Force Quit]. On repeat runs after force quit and not waiting for the scanner to move back to park by itself, during the xsane initialization phase I hear the normal sounds of the scanner waking up and getting ready. (I've used this scanner for a couple of years under windows 2000, before switching to ubuntu full time this last spring). I've installed (well enabled really) the scanner by editing /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and uncommenting "canon_pp"; then set permissions on /dev/parport0 to 777 so I don't have to always run xsane as root (c.f. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScannersCanon, 2007-Sep-06 entry for FB630P) I get the same behaviour regardless of whether I run xsane from root or user. Following the advice in the thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2753887&postcount=22 I've captured debug logging output. Further on in that same thread there are suggestions to try forcenibble in the dll.conf, which I've also tried with no observable change. My parallel port is set to EPP in BIOS (ASUS M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 0603). $ export SANE_DEBUG_CANON_PP=100 $ xsane 1> xsane.log 2> xsane.err In preparing this bug report I've repeated these steps about a dozen times, the third last time, the scan actually worked. On the following attempt, there were about 3 rows of pixels in the preview window before it stalled. On all previous attempts I saw nothing in the preview window but the sane logo. There is a thread in ubuntu forums describing a similar problem with no resolution (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2763187&postcount=27) I'm a little confused as there is both a /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and a /etc/sane.d/canon_pp.conf and their contents are near identical for the first 37 lines. However setting forcenibble in either one seems to work. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Dec 1 21:30:33 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Package: hal 0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 SourcePackage: hal Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/173393/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173393 Title: canoscan FB330P starts scan, then stalls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/173393/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
