>>> I remembered to not hit the trigger momentarily, because after that I >>> get "comms failure", lsusb hangs, and I need to reboot the system. >> >> Have you tried the latest development snapshot ? It should have fixed this. > > Oh. I didn't know about that. I will try it today. Doing it on Fedora 9. Nice, "Reading too short" instead "comms. failure". $ ~/src/Argyll_V1.1.0_Beta/bin/chartread test [snip] Trigger instrument switch or any key to start, Esc, ^C or Q to give up: Strip read failed due to misread (Reading is too short) Hit Esc to give up, any other key to retry: About to read strip pass A Trigger instrument switch or any key to start, Esc, ^C or Q to give up: Strip read failed due to misread (Too many patches) Hit Esc to give up, any other key to retry: About to read strip pass A Trigger instrument switch or any key to start, Esc, ^C or Q to give up: Strip read failed due to misread (Reading is too short) Hit Esc to give up, any other key to retry: About to read strip pass A Trigger instrument switch or any key to start, Esc, ^C or Q to give up: (Warning) Seem to have read strip pass F rather than A! Hit Return to use it anyway, any other key to retry, Esc, ^C or Q to give up: Nice! Strip F instead A. Nice touch!!!!! -- Rick Richardson rick.richardson@xxxxxxxxxxx http://home.comcast.net/~rickrich1/ Linux printer driver for HP CLJ 2600n http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ Linux printer driver (KM 2430 and HP 10xx) http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ Linux tools for geocaching http://geo.rkkda.com/