[sane-devel] Epson Gt-6000 Parallel Port Scanner under Red Hat

[Mauro Michielon]

Hi there,

this is the last chance before throwing away the scanner, and so falling on 
my knees in front of consumerism buying a new one.

So... I've got an Epson Gt-6000 (Parallel Port) Flatbed scanner, with 
factory dip-switch settings;
Pc is running with Red Hat 7.3, KDE 3, SANE 1.0.7 that comes with the 
distribution.

The scanner react to the parallel initialization during the OS boot process.

I provided to correctly configure epson.conf with the correct PIO address 
(0x278 in my case), and dll.conf which contains only "epson".

the SANE Epson Backend is v0.2.24 (think to be the last version available)

Starting any program that suite sane driver layer, the scanner react with 
the same noisy initialization that comes starting the OS (opening the 
port!?!) but then the program freeze and the scanner fall sleeping 
again...... no error on the front display of the item.

Then I tried to upgrade sane to the last version 1.0.9 but the result was 
the same.

setting the SANE_DEBUG_EPSON up to 128, the result was:

[root@localhost sane.d]# export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON = 128

[root@localhost sane.d]# xscanimage -v
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson to 128.
[epson] sane_init: sane-backend 1.0.9
[epson] sane_init, >pio ox278<
[epson] sane_init, >pio ox278<
[epson] attach(pio 0x278)
[epson] SANE Epson Backend v0.2.24
[epson] attach: opening pio 0x278
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 40 @

any tip or something else to check?

Tnx a lot
MM