Alex wrote: >Hi! > > >I have an Epson 1640SU office scanner and I am trying to make the document >feeder work. I saw in the archives this may be quite difficult... I am >running 2.6.5 kernel and the scanner is USB pluged. Here are the version >of sane I am using: > > >dpkg -l | grep sane >ii libsane 1.0.13-4 API library for scanners >ii sane 1.0.11-3 Scanner graphical frontends >ii sane-utils 1.0.13-4 API library for scanners -- utilities >ii xsane 0.92-2 A gtk-based X11 frontend for SANE > > >/etc/sane.d/epson.conf contains only 'usb', the scanner is well >recognized: > > >scanimage -L >device `epson:libusb:001:003' is a Epson Perfection1640 flatbed scanner > > >All works fine in flatbed mode so I tried to use my automatic document >feeder. And this is the problem: I don't have any ADF option in source >parameter of scanimage: > > >scanimage -h >... > Optional equipment: > --source Flatbed|Transparency Unit [Flatbed] > Selects the scan source (such as a document-feeder). >... > > >I don't have any Transparency unit... > > >So, is it possible to make the ADF work with epson 1640SU with 2.6 kernel >and USB? Any help would be greatly welcomed. > > >Thanks. >Alex > > > > I use an Epson 1640SU too and it works here, but not out of the box. I use kernel 2.6.6-rc3. In sane-backends-1.0.14/backend/epson.c make the feed() function to immediately return SANE_STATUS_GOOD;
Then use scanimage -d epson:libusb:00x:00x --source "Automatic Document Feeder" .. and it should work. -- Klaus
