I crashed Linux

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

I crashed Linux.  For the first time.  I didn't think it was possible.

I was trying to get my old Microtek ScanMaker E3 going vis-a-vis RH 7.0,
kernel 2.4-test10 and SANE 1.0.3.  It was ugly, but it wasn't pretty. 
SANE's 'scanimage' saw my scanner o.k., but when I ran:

scanimage --format=tiff --mode Color --speed 2
--device=microtek:/dev/scanner -l 0 -t 0 -x 100 -y 150 

the scanner just make a couple of blurps, then... nothing.  My KDE
session was dead.  I killed X o.k., but then I couldn't get a console. 
I had to hard reboot.

I don't really know what the point of this post is.  Just interesting
that it could even happen.  I guess it is a test kernel.

-Ron-
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