scanner shopping with ubuntu hardy

[Jack Bowling]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:26:32PM -0700, Leslie Lewis wrote:
> Older scanners are better. I have had a Canoscan 4400F and it still
> doesn't work - I keep hoping that SANE will be updated to include it
> but no luck. I had an older Canon that worked beautifully, but its
> light burned out and no one would fix it. It's a very good idea to
> check the SANE site before buying.
>

Note that if you are using a USB scanner that there is a bug in the current
ehci_hcd USB 2.0 driver in the Ubuntu Intrepid kernel. Many people have to
unload the driver to get things to work:

sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd

It will work after that but slower due to the slower ohci_hcd driver having
to do all the work. This may or may not be an option for some depending
what other peripherals they have that need the highspeed USB driver.

Jack