Hi, On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:07:52PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Oops, sorry Henning. The scanner is an Epson Perfection 1250u. > sane-backends is 1.0.11 IIRC. Present kernel is 2.6.0-test9-mm2.
1.0.12 is the current stable version. There are also snapshots of 1.0.13. However I don't remember such a problem. > xsane, when launched, appears to be ok. But click on get preview, or > just click on the go button, and the return is that its busy, coming > back instantly. > > dmesg seems to indicate its found and linked in the normal manner. Please show us the output of "scanimage -L". > But click on get preview gets a message box telling me it failed to > start the scanner, and does it in just a few hundred milliseconds. To be sure that no other backend makes trouble, you can disable everything but yout backend in dll.conf. > >You can enebale debug messages by setting the environment variable > >SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME=255 (BACKENDNAME is the name of the backend > > you use). > > I'm not sure which backend is showing, "scanimage -L" shows the backend name. > but let me run it... Plustek > seems to be the choice after it wades past a bunch of bttv stuffs and > the test backends. "plustek" or "epkowa" if you have isntalled the latter. > Setting the env var doesn't seem to effect things either... Setting it prints debug messages. E.g. SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -d plustek >image.pnm Bye, Henning
