Hi. Yes, I know. Take a look at my howto for this scanner. The lists purists hate it. It's very crude but it *always* works!
www.arrakis.es/~fsanta/sane Good luck, Steve. On Saturday 10 November 2001 03:04, you wrote: > AUGH!!! I can't take it anymore! > I just upgrade my system and I can't get my scanner working. I've exausted > my knowledge of sane, so if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong > _please_ say so, and if things look like they should be working... well > that's a bigger problem isn't it. (oh it was working before the upgrade) > > I installed sane-backends-1.0.6, sane-frontends-1.0.6 and xsane-0.80 on RH > 7.2 here are some partial file dumps... > > This is from /var/logs/messages, when I try and use the scanner I get line > after line of this. It is the _only_ error message I recieve regarding the > scanner. > Nov 9 20:45:36 atredies kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(5): Unable to > access minor data > > now to the configuration files: > From /proc/bus/usb/devices: > ... > P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=010c Rev= 0.01 > S: Manufacturer=EPSON > S: Product=Perfection640 > ... > > From /etc/modules.conf: > ... > options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x010c > > modprobe doesn't report any errors and /var/log/messages has this: > ... > Nov 9 20:45:35 atredies kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner > Nov 9 20:45:35 atredies kernel: scanner.c: probe_scanner: User specified > USB scanner -- Vendor:Product - 4b8:10c > Nov 9 20:45:35 atredies kernel: scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered. > ... > > From /etc/sane.d/epson.conf (the scsi line is commented out) > ... > /dev/usb/usbscanner0 (I also tried 'usb /dev/usb/usbscanner0') > > > sane-find-scanner reports this: > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device > /dev/usb/scanner0 > > # `UNKNOWN vendor and product' means that there seems to be a scanner > # at this device file but the vendor and product ids couldn't be > # identified. Currently identification only works with Linux versions > # >= 2.4.8. > I'm running kernel 2.4.7-10 > > xsane report there is no scanning device. > > I also tried running 'xscanimage epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' > but all that happens is the scanner light blinks no file is produced and > those error messages I mentioned before are written. Oh yea, the prompt > doesn't return and I end up having to kill the process. > > help please! > > -fjr > > > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
