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

[Mauro Michielon]

Thanks for the fast reply to my answer,

but infortunately I'm already root user (you can see it in the log).

I've no ideas, but maybe there should be something stupid that I miss to 
set, cause I read that GT-6000 works fine with other persons.

tnx again
MM

At 08.28 25/11/2002 -0500, khk at khk.net wrote:
>Are you trying this as root user? All parallel port scanners need root
>access (that is, the backends need root access to talk to the scanners).
>Please try to scan as root user.
>
>Karl Heinz
>
> > 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 at localhost sane.d]# export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON = 128
> >
> > [root at 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
> >
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