The epson backend is deprecated and unsupported. Please use epson2 instead. You may have to disable epson and enable epson2 in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
allan On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote: > Summary: sane reports that my scanner, which was working fine before I did > some Ubuntu upgrades, now possesses 0 scanning capabilities. This is a bug > on someone's part, and Ratcliffe suggested I try here. (I got no replies in > the IRC channel.) > > Forwarded conversation > Subject: Re: [gscan2pdf-help] gscan2pdf-help post from gwern0 at gmail.com > requires approval > ------------------------ > > From: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:16 AM > To: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:37:07AM +0000, > gscan2pdf-help-owner at lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> Out of the box, jaunty gscan2pdf failed to scan with an array of error >> messages. I upgraded it and most of its deps to Karmic in the hopes >> things had been fixed, but no dice. So then I did a git clone and >> began working with *that*. After a great deal of fiddling with CPAN >> and debuild for things the configure script did not seem to pick up or >> flag as missing, I ran bin/gscan2pdf with great hopes - and it failed >> on scanning with much the same error. > > It looks as though the SANE backend process is not finishing > cleanly. Can you scan with scanimage? > > Regards > > Jeff > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkt7pc8ACgkQVDAgnE3XzJMj5ACgo+u/ui/quBjiQfg3Brzutf83 > dMoAoMosjX6WEnU6sVXqB4HGEJ5EUTzK > =KBi8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > gscan2pdf-help mailing list > gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gscan2pdf-help > > > ---------- > From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:57 AM > To: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Cc: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > No; in fact, all of the 'frontend' (as the preferences call them) seem > to be broken. Attached is screenshot & --debug for 'scanimage'. > > -- > gwern > > ---------- > From: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM > To: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > The reason that hasn't worked is that scanimage is reporting no > resolutions available: > > ? ?--resolution dpi [0] > ? ? ? ?Sets the resolution of the scanned image. > > The available scan area is also 0: > > ? ?-l 0..0mm [0] > ? ? ? ?Top-left x position of scan area. > ? ?-t 0..0mm [0] > ? ? ? ?Top-left y position of scan area. > ? ?-x 0..0mm [0] > ? ? ? ?Width of scan-area. > ? ?-y 0..0mm [0] > ? ? ? ?Height of scan-area. > > What happens if you try on the command line: > > scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:012' --mode='Binary' > --source='Flatbed' > image.pnm > > ? > > The epson backend doesn't seem to be in a good state. > > Regards > > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > > ---------- > From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:44 AM > To: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Cc: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe >> --source='Flatbed' > image.pnm > > [11:41 AM] 248Mb$ scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:012' > scanimage: open of device epson:libusb:001:012 failed: Invalid argument > > [11:42 AM] 248Mb$ scanimage -L > device `epson:libusb:001:014' is a Epson ?flatbed scanner > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:014' > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ scanimage -L > device `epson:libusb:001:015' is a Epson ?flatbed scanner > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ rm image.pnm; scanimage > --device-name='epson:libusb:001:015' --mode='Binary' > --source='Flatbed' > image.pnm > scanimage: attempted to set inactive option source > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ rm image.pnm; scanimage > --device-name='epson:libusb:001:015' --mode='Binary' > image.pnm > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ scanimage -L > device `epson:libusb:001:016' is a Epson ?flatbed scanner > [11:43 AM] 248Mb$ rm image.pnm; scanimage > --device-name='epson:libusb:001:016' > image.pnm > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > [11:44 AM] 248Mb$ > > (I tried turning off & on the scanner before each scanimage -L, hence > the incrementing.) > > -- > gwern > > ---------- > From: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM > To: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> > Cc: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > Try scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:012' --help > > just to check the option names are correct, but assuming they are, > this is a problem for the sane-devel list. > > Regards > > Jeff > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkt/9B0ACgkQVDAgnE3XzJNLdgCfTve09hebb6626AYAelpGrfhL > 4OYAnRbKMNo1mcte92K7WDQB5RiQTSKU > =V9lM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ---------- > From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:14 AM > To: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> > Cc: gscan2pdf-help at lists.sourceforge.net > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe > [11:11 AM] 1355Mb$ scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:003' > --help &> output > > I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, so I've attached the > entire output: > > [11:11 AM] 1355Mb$ scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb: > 001:003' > --help &> output > > I notice that your previous suggested commands all had the > '--option=value' syntax, but the output says things like '--mode > Binary|Gray|Color [Binary]'. > > -- > gwern > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe > <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:14:17AM -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote: >>> I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, so I've attached the >>> entire output: >>> >>> [11:11 AM] 1355Mb$ scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:003' >>> --help &> output >> >> Yes. There is a problem with the backend - it is reporting 0 >> resolution and page size! I would start back posting this output on >> sane-devel and see if you get any joy there. >> >>> I notice that your previous suggested commands all had the >>> '--option=value' syntax, but the output says things like '--mode >>> Binary|Gray|Color [Binary]'. >> >> That is just showing you the options - i.e. the --mode option could be >> binary, gray or color, but defaults to binary if you don't specify it. >> >> Regards >> >> Jeff > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
