[sane-devel] Epson GT-8200U: "Could not send command to scanner"

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

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The GT-8200 is a Perfection 1650, and besides the box and the manual,
everything is the same (actually, the Perfection 1650 reports it's
name as GT-8200).

Did you upgrade your system to Red Hat 7.3? If so, try this:
rpm -e --nodeps sane-backends
rpm -ivh sane-backends-1.0.7-6.i386.rpm
(you need the sane-backends-...rpm file from your distribution).

Which version of Sane are you using?=20
Do you have any other USB devices that work?=20
Do you see any messages on the console that could be related to the scanner=
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Is your Linux distribution using USB hotplugging?=20
What permissions are on the /dev/usb/scanner0 device file?


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:48:29AM -0700, Steve Frampton wrote:
> Hello:
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> After looking at several scanners and rejecting those whose=20
> manufacturer's are too stupid to support Linux, I just purchased an Epson=
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> GT-8200U, based on the positive things I've read about Epson scanner=20
> support under Linux, and especially due to the efforts of Epson Kowa to=
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> bring high quality Epson scanning support to Linux.
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> I followed the instructions at http://www.epkowa.co.jp/linux/lsd_note.html
> but when trying to use xsane or iscan, the scanner does its warm up, and
> then I get the error, "Could not send command to scanner" from iscan, or=
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> "Error during read: Invalid argument" from xsane.
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> I did a /sbin/modprobe scanner vendor=3D0x04b8 product=3D0x0110
> where the vendor and product were reported in /proc/bus/usb/devices prior=
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> to running iscan, so it should know how to communicate properly.
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> Does anybody else here have this model and have successfully got it to=20
> scan?  I'm using Red Hat 7.2, kernel 2.4.17.  By the way, just in case=20
> there are hardware differences, my scanner is a Japanese model.
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> Thanks in advance.
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