First let me say this: Thank you for providing all the information I usually have to ask for :-)
> I am new to SANE, so please excuse some of my ignorance. > > I have a new Epson Perfection 1650 scanner and I am trying to use it > with a 2.4.19 kernel and the sane-backends-1.08 package. I have > uncommented the line: "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" line in > /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf. I have also included USB scanner > support as a kernel module. > > /usr/local/bin/sane-find-scanner reports: > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = > 0x0110) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = > 0x0110) at device /dev/usbscanner > > I have set permissions to 666 on /dev/usb/scanner0 > > If I run /usr/local/bin/scanimage -L the program just hangs. > > > /usr/local/bin/scanimage -d epson also hangs. > > The software that cane with the scanner is identified as applying the > the 1250/1650 series. This worries me as the 1250 is reported as being > unsupported. The two models are totally different beasts. The 1650 is supported and uses EPSON's ESC-I command set, whereas the 1250 uses the NS983x chip with it's command set. > > Is there a problem with recently produced models of this scanner or > should I go back to reading the documentation. I am not aware of any problems, and usually the scanners get better the longer they are on the market. Do you have a second installation of Sane on your system (e.g. files in /etc/sane.d or in /usr/lib/sane)? This can cause the problems you are seeing. Do you have link /dev/scanner to a USB device? If so, then remove it. Is the scanner connected via a USB hub? If so, then try to connect it directly to the USB interface on your computer. Do you have a different USB cable that you can try? If this still does not help, then comment out (or remove) all other backends in dll.conf. If this still does not give you a working system, then it's time to create a log file: Type this in a terminal window: export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128 xsane > /tmp/scan.log 2>&1 If this does not give you any output in the file /tmp/scan.log, then it's not my problem :-) If you do see information in this file, please email it to me. Karl Heinz
