Since I've upgraded from Ubuntu Breezy (5.10) to Dapper (6.06), I can't get my Epson Perfection 2450 Photo scanner to work in Linux.
In Breezy, xsane would work provided I ran it twice (i.e. open - close - open again). On the initial run, xsane would find the scanner immediately, but it wouldn't operate it. On the second run, xsane would take many seconds to find the scanner, but would then operate it normally. Now in Dapper, xsane takes many seconds to find the scanner and still won't operate it; trying to scan yields, after some more utter inactivity, "Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O". Closing and rerunning xsane produces an identical result. So does running it as root via sudo. xscanimage (which also used to work in Breezy, the rare time I'd try it out) fails similarly with the same message. I've downloaded and installed the Epson-Kowa (Avasys) program iscan. It fails with the message "Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status." That's both as a normal user and as root. lsusb yields Bus 004 Device 003: ID 04b8:0112 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2450 scanimage -L yields device `epson:libusb:004:003' is a Epson GT-9700 flatbed scanner sane-find-scanner yields found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0112 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:004:003 I've tried commenting out the "scsi Epson" line in the /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file, but that makes no difference. Likewise, no difference when I add the manufacturer and product no. in the line which otherwise reads simply "usb". iscan uses the alternative config file /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf, and I've done the same to that file, to no avail. I've tried kooka but it doesn't even throw up any warning windows - just doesn't activate the scanner. I've tried the scanner on my wife's AMD-64 (also running Dapper), and xsane behaves identically (to my knowledge she hasn't got any other scanning software). The scanner does work on my machine in WinXP, although it does crash every few pages and has to be powered off and on again to reset. (It's shown that misbehaviour for years.) Google is NOT being my friend for this issue. Any ideas? =====Andrew
