-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello *,
I read this posting rying to find a solution for something that is most probably the same problem that you have. My scanner (same model as wendigo's) takes forever to warm up. I managed to solve this problem by ensuring that - while scanning - the lamp does not turn off for 3 minutes (option lampOff 180). The first time I scanned my scanner would take a long time to warm up, but all subsequent scans ran fine. Unfortunately that behavior changed after my update to Etch (I also manually updated my kernel and my hardware, so I can't exactly say which of that caused the new behavior, but I very strongly believe it's the kernel). Since then my scanner's light turns off 3 seconds after the scan, no matter what I set the lampOff parameter to. I also tried to change to change the warmup time but this yielded inacceptably poor scanning results. So I did a little research, and in one of my bright moments I figured, that the usbcore's autosuspend timer might cause the turn off of the scanner light. So I added a file /etc/modprobe.d/usbcore containing: - --snip-- options usbcore autosuspend=180 - --snap-- removed all usb related modules and reinserted them again. An viola! Now the light stays on, preventing it to cool off and the warmup takes significantly less time (10 seconds per new scan) and above all that the scan quality is superb again. There might be some implications on power saving with idle usb-devices, but so far no problems have arised (arisen?!) - From my point of view this solved the problem in a much better way than to reduce the warmup time. Regards, wasi - -- GPG Key ID: 1508 FEC9 GPG Key fingerprint: E569 F8D8 5A7D C5DC 7372 047C DBF8 2040 1508 FEC9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGW2nB2/ggQBUI/skRArLTAJsGqKE0g7OImQiCOdv1rDsPb7JVmQCfXkIj 7pF6jRsYmyfIygC4bbBWOEs= =MSrH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
