This might have been an easier fix, but I got a hint in a previous post. I downloaded an experimental sane-backends package and now iscan works just fine.
-Ole Jacob On Tuesday 27 January 2004 6:32 am, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Ole Jacob Taraldset <[email protected]> writes: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > > I have an Epson Perfection 1650 Photo which I have been using with > > iscan. Now suddenly iscan doesn't work any more and just give me a > > dialog box saying "Could not send command to scanner". Xsane still > > works and recognizes my scanner without any problems. > > > > My system is a RedHat 9 box with freshrpms updates and the following: > > sane-backends-1.0.9-5.1 > > sane-frontends-1.0.9-2 > > xsane-0.89-3 > > iscan-1.5.2-1.redhat.8.0 > > Hmm, that ought to work provided the libsane.so symlink points to the > right library. There is a known bug on RH9 where /usr/lib/libsane.so > points to the v4l SANE backend. Check if this is the case and fix it > if so. > > To check: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib/libsane.so > > To fix (requires root permissions): > > # ln -fs libsane.so.1.0.9 /usr/lib/libsane.so > > > I've also tried iscan 1.4, but get the same result. > > Never mind that version. It was very much not nice in that it quietly > overwrote the epson backend. > > > My /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf contains: > > > > usb /dev/usb/scanner0 > > That should be fine. > > > My /etc/sane.d/epson.conf contains: > > > > usb /dev/usb/scanner0 > > For the record, iscan does not use the epson backend. It is *not* a > proper SANE frontend in that respect. > > > I have tried to remove one or the other but this doesn't seem to help. > > Hope this helps, -- Process and Safetey, Dept. of Physics, <www.fi.uib.no> PGP key : <http://home.broadpark.no/~ojtarald/pgp.txt> ICQ 5366306 | Jabber [email protected] | AIM ojtaraldset Yahoo ojtaraldset | MSN [email protected]
