Did you have wine running some scanner software at the time you tried the tests with simplescan or xsane? Only one program can talk to the scanner at a time.
allan On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Fran?oise Del Socorro <waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you both, > > Indeed scanner works perfectly in command-line even after deleting (with > Computer Janitor) iscan, imlib and iscan-plugin. (With Wine, they happen to > be a software like Xsane, so Iscan is the driver + software pack that is > only compatible with a few RPM distros, and libsane (plustek) + sane-utils > (scanimage) is the driver + software pack compatible with DEB distros and > perhaps also RPM.) > > But this scanner isn't working with graphical user interface softwares like > simple-scan nor xsane because plustek is not selected, even if Xsane ask us > to select it at start. So is there a way to load modules automatically into > scanner softwares? > > And is there a way for it to work faster ? (or perhaps old scanners are > > 180s/page) > > scanimage -d plustek --resolution 1200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test2.pnm > -> more than 3min, huge size: 10 156 x 14 028 pixels, resized with GIMP. > http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test2resized,2a6b0c074ff97182d246199ded9da370.jpg.html > scanimage -d plustek --resolution 200 -x 1654 -y 2339 > test200.pnm > -> more than 2min, normal size: 1692 x 2338 > http://www.hiboox.fr/go/images/informatique/test200,819e4e0c0d2dea459993825b51266f9c.jpg.html > > Xsane: Failed to start scanner: Device busy > export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; xsane > [plustek] Available and supported devices: > [plustek] Device: >libusb:006:002< - 0x04b8x0x010f > [plustek] Device configuration: > [plustek] device name? : >auto< > [plustek] Device description for >0x04B8-0x010F< found. > [plustek] Device WAF? : 0x00004002 > [plustek] Device Flags: 0x00000000 > [plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbff7ed9c, 0) > [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16) > > Simple-scan: Failed to scan: Unable to start scan > export SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=20 ; simple-scan > [plustek] sane_start > [plustek] usbDev_open(libusb:006:002,) - (nil) > [plustek] sanei_usb_open failed: Device or resource busy (16) > [plustek] sane_start: open failed: 16 > ** (simple-scan:2356): WARNING **: Unable to start device: Device busy > > ________________________________ > De : Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de> > ? : sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > Cc : Fran?oise Del Socorro <waterreedshimmer at yahoo.com> > Envoy? le : Mar 22 mars 2011, 10h 42min 55s > Objet?: Re: [sane-devel] Scanner Epson Perfection 1250 Photo on Ubuntu Lucid > 10.04 > > Hi Fran?oise, > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 09:21:43 Fran?oise Del Socorro wrote: > [...] >> He did a small 202x150 pixels image with just the upper part of the paper >> and mostly blank, he did not recognize where the paper was in the scanner >> (it was in the middle as before), and he did not scan the entire document >> table (as he did once when the paper was at the same place), since he only >> have found 1/4 of it. > > that's perfect, as it's the default setting for scanimage. > Either use a suitable frontend like xsane for adjusting the scan area > or use the -x -y parameters for scanimage to enlarge the scan area. > You might also adjust the resolution. > > "man scanimage" might be your friend. > > HTH > Gerhard > > > > -- > 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"
