Always start with an upgrade to a current git repo checkout. There has been some work on the avision backend recently, and you might get lucky.
allan On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:38 AM, skerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wolf, > > Thanks for your response. > > I will be stuck using CentOS7. It uses a 3.10 kernel. But your correct, > CentOS/RHEL, backport many patches/bugfixes/updates. > > Its the platform we use for a very heavily modified Kickstart server > installation we provide to our end users. I have the scanner working on my > CentOS 5 and 6 kickstarts, but we have hundreds out in the field and will > have to update to 7 in the not too distant future. It wont be a complete > show stopper as long as I can get scanimage to scan over the network to an > avision hanging off a windows workstation. > > Also , by you comments, I presume the maintainer listed in the avision conf > file is no longer active. That was going to be my next recourse if noone on > this list had any fruitful suggestions. > > Hopefully I can come up with a solution before CentOS7 goes live. > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > > On 01/14/2017 05:30 AM, Wolf Drechsel wrote: > > Hello, > > just my 2cts: > I'm suffering from a "avision" problem as well - we seem to be quite a bit > lost at the moment, as far as I understood, the avision backend does not > have a maintainer at the moment. > > An ugly workaround for me is to scan from my laptop which is running debian > 8.6 now - I do not have any problems scanning with that machine. Maybe you > want to give a debian live system a try? > > My guess (but I do not know anything about programming) is that in the last > few years USB timing was changed, so older kernels work better than newer > ones. I read that CentOS is using a comparatively old kernel, but with quite > a lot of patches - can those cause the harm? > > cheers, > Wolf > > Am Freitag, den 13.01.2017, 09:26 -0500 schrieb skerr: > > Hello, > I am having an issue when trying to use a Avision AV210D2+ scanner. > I am running CentOS 7.2 using sane-backends 1.0.24. > > fujitsu fi-6130z and 7160 both work fine on the same platform. > > USB 3 is turned off in the bios and lsusb -t shows the scanner is using the > ehci-pc usb module. > > The scanner is seen properly by sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L. > device `avision:libusb:002:032' is a Avision AV210D2+ sheetfed scanner > > When attempting to scan a documents, scanimage -d avision >test.jpg the > console error message > is segmentation fault. dmesg shows segfault at 7fa93c82a9d0 ip > 00007fa94a2a1de0 sp 00007fff384ef888 error 4 in > libpthread-2.17.so[7fa94a299000+17000] > > Some things I have tried: > - passing various supported geometry and resolution options to scanimage . > - removing all backends from dll.conf except for avision > - rotated amongst all usb ports > - bios update to workstation > > > ________________________________ > This email was scanned by Bitdefender. > > > > ________________________________ > The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the > confidential use of the recipient/recipients named above. If the reader of > this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for > delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you > have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, > distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by e-mail > and delete the original message. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
