[X Newbies] Console Message

Diego Terneus dtern at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 27 07:19:18 PST 2004


Alex,
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I have installed that software. I still 
have the scanner, don't I need the software; at least a driver to use 
it?

On Feb 26, 2004, at 5:47 PM, Alex wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Feb 26, 2004, at 20:03 Canada/Eastern, Diego Terneus 
> wrote:
>
>> I became curious about looking at the logs that Console keeps track 
>> of.
>> In the console.log file, I've been getting the following message for 
>> the last 2 weeks and it just seems to have gotten into a loop:
>>
>> Looking for devices matching vendor ID=1193 and product ID=8717
>> [...]
>
> Sounds like the "Canon sickness". Have you installed software for a 
> Canon scanner recently? It's one of the crappiest in existence, and it 
> installs background processes that do exactly that. Solution -- get 
> rid of it.
>
> f
>
>
>
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