for starters, lets see if we can get the epson to show up with scanimage -L, maybe check the contents of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and make sure epson is enabled (though in theory, epson2 should support your machine)
allan On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Dr. Michael Kaplan <dr.michaelkaplan at alice-dsl.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using F16 on an AMD64 machine. > > I have 2 scanners, a hp in my home network and an epson on the usb port. > > sane-find-scanner reports: > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010b [Perfection1240]) > at libusb:004:002 > > scanimage -L reports: > > device `hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?zc=HP2CEF9D' is a Hewlett-Packard > Officejet_6500_E710a-f all-in-one > > If I call > > xsane epson:libusb:004:002 > or > xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?ip=192.168.1.28 > > xsane works fine. > > I deleted the .sane-directory in my homedir and created a new one by > saving options from xsane. The .sane-directory now looks like > > $ ls .sane/xsane/ > batch-lists > epson:libusb:004:002.drc > hpaio:_net_Officejet__6500__E710a-f_ip=192.168.1.28.drc > xsane.mdf > xsane.rc > > My problem is that a xsane call without argument doesn't find my > devices and reports an I/O error with > hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?zc=HP2CEF9D > > Why does xsane ignore my .sane/xsane/ ? > > My system apparently uses 2 different versions of xsane: > > /usr/bin/xsane (without gimp support) > /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane (with gimp support) > > but both have the same problem. > > I tried to change the gimp-Menu to call directly > xsane epson:libusb:004:002 > or > xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?ip=192.168.1.28 > but this didn't work. > > Thanks in advance for any idea! > > Michael > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/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"
