Hi, Roger Sewell writes:
> Hi - I'm new here. > > I've been trying to get xsane to work on an Epson ET-4500 > print/scan/copier. Everything works except scanning from the automatic > document feeder (ADF) - I can scan fine from the flatbed. The ET-4500 is not documented as supported by the epson2 backend. There is a third party backend, part of Utsushi[1], that claims to support it. Over USB, at least. [1] https://github.com/utsushi/utsushi > Whether I try with xsane or with scanimage I get the same outcome: > > ADF starts working. About half a page into the first page the ADF > stops, and the front end gives an error message: > > sane_start: Error during device I/O > > while at the scanner end the scanner hangs up and demands it be > power-cycled. > > In addition the eject command doesn't work (ever). > > Any help would be appreciated. A compressed debug log, preferably over USB, would be helpful. SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=128 scanimage [options] 2> debug.log xz debug.log should do the trick. > The rest of this email is information about my installation. > [...] > I have also tried using the usb connection, with exactly the same result > in all respects. > > I also tried using scanimage by > > scanimage -p --mode=color --batch='temp%d.pnm' --source=Automatic > > and by > > scanimage -p --mode=color --batch='temp%d.pnm' --source=Automatic > --buffer-size=3000 > > and exactly the same problem occurs again. > > Any ideas would be most welcome. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
