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UDEV – Getting an Old Scanner to Behave..

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I recently acquired a vintage (2006?) Minolta Elite 5400 II scanner, and – according to the VueScan support info, I needed to ”set up libusb device protections”..   That info included a link to a somewhat ancient SANE USB support page – last changed in 2003!.. That rang a bell, and I guessed that I had to mess … Continue reading →

APC – Kernel Progression..

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In the hope of getting a newer version of Fedora Linux running, I have ‘updated’ the 2.6.32.9 APC kernel to 2.6.32.27..    This was achieved by the labour-intensive method of applying all the incremental kernel patches in sequence, and manually fixing any code that ‘failed’ the patch…    So.. I am now running Fedora 13 with kernel 2.6.32.27 on … Continue reading →