It is possible that the capabilites of the scanner are improved under later versions of the epson2 backend.
allan On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote: > on the server (host with the scanner) sane-backends-1.0.20-11.fc11.x86_64 > > on the client libsane 1.0.20-13ubuntu2 > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: >> What version of sane-backends are you running on both boxes? >> >> allan >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> >> wrote: >>> That directed me to what I was doing wrong >>> >>> when I start xsane it asks me to pick from two scanners >>> >>> device `net:foo:epson2:/dev/sg5' is a Epson SCANNER flatbed scanner >>> device `net:foo:epson:/dev/sg5' is a Epson GT-30000 flatbed scanner >>> >>> the first does not have the options, the second one does >>> >>> Thanks !!!! >>> >>> -pete >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> If you run scanimage --help on both machines, you should see the same >>>> list of options. Is that true? >>>> >>>> allan >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at >>>> petelancashire.com> wrote: >>>>> I have a Epson GT-30000 on a Fedora 11 box. running xsane it has what >>>>> looks like all its features, for example the ADF can be duplexing. >>>>> >>>>> I've just set up saned on that box. >>>>> >>>>> The client I'm using is Linux Mint 9 (Ubuntu under the covers), it >>>>> 'see' the GT-30000 just fine but many of its features are not >>>>> available, >>>>> and the ADF eject does not work. >>>>> >>>>> Hoping this is a 'operator' error. >>>>> >>>>> -pete >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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" >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" >> >> -- >> 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"
