[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 - No scanners were identified

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:41:30PM +1200, Simon O'Rorke wrote:
> I've just installed SANE-1.0.8 under SuSE Linux 8.0 (kernel version 2.4.18).
> I have an Epson Perfection 1650 scanner connected via USB.
> 
> 	sane-find-scanner
> 
> gives the following message.
> 
> 	sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x0110) at
> device /dev/usb/scanner0
> 	sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x0110) at
> device  /dev/usbscanner
> 
> 	scanimage --list-devices
> 
> gives the following message.
> 
> 	No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> 	check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> 	sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> 	which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> The version of SANE that shipped with SuSE Linux 8.0 (1.0.7-59) is not
> installed:  I know that that version does not support the Epson Perfection
> 1650 scanner;  SANE-1.0.8 does.  However, I have had SuSE's SANE 1.0.7-59
> package previously.  It did work with my Epson Perfection 1650 scanner after
> a fashion:  the scan result was in black and white.  That is the problem I'm
> hoping will be fixed with SANE-1.0.8.

The Perfection 1650 should work with SuSE 8.0 without any problems. Which frontend
did you use to scan? 

Karl Heinz

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