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[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not quite a repeat of my former message under subject

9.3 arrives in UK, scanner setup still broken

but about the same problem. I posted lots of info there, which I won't repeat 
unless someone thinks it might help - I can't use 9.3 on my main workstation 
until I can get my Epson Perfection 2450 Photo scanner working with it. It 
worked with 9.2, after a fight, and historically support (on the identical 
hardware) was perfect under earlier versions. So there's no physical reason 
why it wouldn't work.

Johannes Meixner has kindly tried to help, but no dice. His feeling is there's 
a problem with the USB setup somewhere. He also suggested I'd been unfair in 
saying the scanner setup was broken in 9.3 when it was going well elsewhere, 
and perhaps that's fair enough.


The mainboard is an Intel 845, and has performed flawlessly with the same 
scanner in the past. Johannes wondered if it might, however, have an 
imperfect USB 2.0 implementation. I know it's worked fine with a USB 2.0 CF 
card reader, and that the USB 2.0 setup under 9.3 does correctly report the 
scanner as a high-speed device, and sees it correctly as an Epson scanner, 
down to the model number. But it doesn't work ... With the USB 2.0 disabled 
in the mainboard BIOS (which is the latest) the scanner is again correctly 
identified, this time as a USB 1.1 device, but it doesn't ... errr ... work.

Anyone got any oddness to report in 9.3 USB, or with particular boards? Anyone 
now any usb tricks to try? Anyone got a happy set up with this scanner or 
similar model?
Cheers
Fergus

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Fergus Wilde
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