I can now confirm that also I have succeeded (at last!) to get my Epson ADF scanner to work with Xsane. After I got copy of the previous libsane-epson.so.1.0.8 from Suse Linux 8.1, I followed the suggested installation procedure below to apply it on Suse 9.1.
As libsane-epson.so.1.0.8 shows to work with ADF, maybe this makes it easier to debug the current libsane-epson library (?) Terje J. Hanssen Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > I just got the following mail from a reader of my August mail about this > problem. It looks like the ADF problem is related to newer versions of > the libsane-epson library, as the previous version 1.0.8 worked and > works, see below. > >> Flatbed scanning works, but trying to use the ADF results in the >> following error: "Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O", >> and no scanning starts. (Just to verify that the ADF works: the >> included scanner software, Epson Smartpanel for scanners and Epson >> Twain5, works ADF scanning in Windows). > > > *I had the same Epson ADF problem, using Suse linux 9.1. Flatbed scanning > worked fine. Previously using Suse 8.1 the ADF worked fine. I then found > that the problem is with version 1.0.13 of the epson sane library. I > solved the problem by downgrading this library to version 1.0.8 (that I > had in Suse 8.1). Now the ADF works fine. > > For doing that, I copied the old > /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.8 > to the /usr/lib/sane/ directory, and relinked the symbolic links > /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so and /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1 to > it, instead of to /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.13. > Then performed ldconfig. > > I did not check version 1.0.14 of sane. >
