In the last month or so, I stopped being able to use my Epson Perfection 1650 scanner from xsane. The 'scanimage' command still works however.
I start xsane (0.86) from the command line and I can see the largest button on the scanner flicker a bit. When I click Start (with parameters Viewer/Color/Full range/100/1.00/0.0/0.0), I get a dialog box that says: Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument I did see the large button flicker again. This seems to be a frequently reported error message. I tried again with SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=3 and got this: [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson to 3. [epson] sane_init: sane-backends 1.0.8 [epson] SANE Epson Backend v0.2.21 - 2002-04-22 [epson] attach: opening usb /dev/usb/scanner0 [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] type B 0x42 [epson] level 8 0x38 [epson] no option equipment installed [epson] resolution (dpi): 50 : : [epson] resolution (dpi): 3200 [epson] maximum scan area: x 27200 y 37440 [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] send buf, size = 1 [epson] Max. supported color depth = 16 [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] Focus position = 0x40 [epson] Enabling 'Set Focus' support [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] Preview = 0 [epson] Resolution = 50 : : [epson] sane_start: set_gamma( s, 0x2 ). [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] send buf, size = 1 [epson] sane_start: set_color_correction( s, 0x80 ) [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] send buf, size = 1 [epson] send buf, size = 2 [epson] send buf, size = 4 [epson] Preview = 0 [epson] Resolution = 100 [epson] get para 0x80f03b0 0x80f0a58 tlx 215.899994 tly 43.794632 brx 215.899994 bry 297.179977 [mm] [epson] set_scan_area: 0x80f03b0 850 172 0 997 [epson] sane_start: set_scan_area failed: Invalid argument [epson] Preview = 0 [epson] Resolution = 100 [epson] get para 0x80f03b0 0x80f0a58 tlx 215.899994 tly 43.794632 brx 215.899994 bry 297.179977 [mm] Other information: RedHat 7.2 gcc 2.96 glibc 2.2.4 Linux 2.4.18 i686 $ rpm -qa | grep -i sane | sort sane-backends-1.0.8-1.ximian.1 sane-backends-devel-1.0.8-1.ximian.1 sane-frontends-1.0.8-1.ximian.1 xsane-0.86-1.ximian.1 xsane-gimp-0.86-1.ximian.1 (Obtained and installed by Ximian Red Carpet 1.3.) $ grep -v '^#' /etc/sane.d/epson.conf usb /dev/usb/scanner0 $ ls -l /dev/usb/scanner0 crw------- 1 ps users 180, 48 avr 11 2002 /dev/usb/scanner0 $ sane-find-scanner | grep -v '^#' | grep -v '^$' sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x0110) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 I tried with xsane 0.88 (using an RPM I compiled myself from the .spec file provided in the source tarball) and 0.83 but the result was the same. This scanner has worked very well until about a month ago. I can provide more details if needed. Thanks. -- Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>