Thanks. I'll start to compare the two releases. There where a number of changes to make other scanners with ADFs work, and I guess something broke the 1640.
Karl Heinz On Sep 26, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > 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. >> > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
