2 May
2003
2 May
'03
7:30 p.m.
I have a new Epson 1660 scanner, and I'm having difficulty getting it
working with the sane drivers. Here's what I have thus far...
1. lsusb worked immediately. Here's some of the output:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Device Descriptor:
<snip>
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:011e Seiko Epson Corp.
Device Descriptor:
<snip>
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0317 Hewlett-Packard
Device Descriptor:
<snip>
(I recently unloaded & loaded the USB & printer modules, and the
device numbers for the printer (HP) and scanner (Epson) changed.)
2. sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x011e) at device
/dev/usb/scanner0
This did not work until I added this to the /etc/modules.conf file and
modprobe'd "scanner":
options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011e
3. My /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file has:
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
(Is that right? I did try some other devices) I also tried
usb 0x04b8 0x011e
No luck
4. I chmod'd (666) /dev/usb/scanner*.
5. xsane always fails. Here are some of the messages.
xsane
no devices available
xsane epson:/dev/usb/scanner0
Failed to open device 'epson:/dev/usb/scanner0': Operation not
supported.
Any suggestions?
TIA,
Bill
P.S. I'm running stock Red Hat 8.0. (I have installed the ALSA sound
modules.)
3 May
3 May
2:31 a.m.
New subject: [Wlug] scanner help
On Friday 02 May 2003 3:30 pm, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
I have a new Epson 1660 scanner, and I'm having
difficulty getting it
working with the sane drivers. Here's what I have thus far...
1. lsusb worked immediately. Here's some of the output:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Device Descriptor:
<snip>
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:011e Seiko Epson Corp.
Device Descriptor:
OK, 04b8:011e is the Epson 1660. You knew that. :-)
(I recently unloaded & loaded the USB & printer modules, and the
device numbers for the printer (HP) and scanner (Epson) changed.)
2. sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product =
0x011e) at device /dev/usb/scanner0
It found my Epson 1660 at both /dev/usb/scanner0 and /dev/usbscanner. I don't
know why I have both, and they both have major:minor=180:48.
This did not work until I added this to the /etc/modules.conf file and
modprobe'd "scanner":
I also have the scanner module loaded.
options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011e
Yup...
3. My /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file has:
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
I have "usb /dev/usbscanner", but recall note above.
(Is that right? I did try some other devices) I also tried
usb 0x04b8 0x011e
No luck
4. I chmod'd (666) /dev/usb/scanner*.
Mine is (666).
I'm running sane-backends-1.0.9 and sane-frontends-1.0.9 which I built from
source in /usr/local. I'm running xsane 0.90. There are more recent
versions available. I'm using a 2.4.20 kernel, but it worked on my 2.4.19
and I think also on 2.4.18. You didn't mention your kernel rev, but I assume
2.4.x since Redhat 8.0 is a relatively recent vintage.
5. xsane always fails. Here are some of the messages.
According to the xsane readme in the source tarball, the most common problem
is having multiple copies of sane installed, and having them conflict in some
way. You might try something like this "find / -name "*sane*" |
less".
Also, try this: rm -rf ~/.sane/xsane
If all else fails, try running strace on xsane. It might shed some clues.
Let me know how it goes.
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
xsane
no devices available
8 May
8 May
2:40 a.m.
New subject: [Wlug] scanner help
Andy,
Thanks for the tips. I've tried everything you suggested, and still
no joy. However, I think that a newer version of sane is in order.
I'm still using the version from RH 8.0:
rpm -qa|fgrep sane
sane-backends-1.0.8-5
sane-frontends-1.0.8-4
xsane-0.84-8
I have the Red Hat 9 CD's, and I'll upgrade as soon as possible to see
what happens.
Thanks,
Bill
19 May
19 May
7:50 p.m.
New subject: [Wlug] scanner help
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Andy Stewart wrote:
AS> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:31:14 -0400
AS> From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)attbi.com>
AS> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
AS> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
AS> Subject: Re: [Wlug] scanner help
AS>
AS> On Friday 02 May 2003 3:30 pm, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
AS> > I have a new Epson 1660 scanner, and I'm having difficulty getting it
AS> > working with the sane drivers. Here's what I have thus far...
<snip>
Andy,
Thanks for the pointers on getting my scanner going. The key was to
get a newer version of xsane. I took the lazy road and upgraded to Red
Hat 9. The version of xsane in the upgrade did the trick.
BTW, I did have one glitch in the upgrade -- it did a poor job of
modifying modules.conf, so a bunch of stuff (printers, network, etc.)
stopped working until I fixed it.
Bill
20 May
20 May
12:43 a.m.
New subject: [Wlug] scanner help
On Monday 19 May 2003 3:50 pm, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
Andy,
Thanks for the pointers on getting my scanner going. The key was to
get a newer version of xsane. I took the lazy road and upgraded to Red
Hat 9. The version of xsane in the upgrade did the trick.
BTW, I did have one glitch in the upgrade -- it did a poor job of
modifying modules.conf, so a bunch of stuff (printers, network, etc.)
stopped working until I fixed it.
Bill
Hi Bill,
I'm glad to hear that you finally go this to work!
I have heard similar RedHat upgrade stories from others. However, I've yet to
see a completely successful upgrade from any distribution. Perhaps I'm just
hearing the vocal folks.
Later,
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
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