[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 Photo

[khk@khk.net]

Ooops, I must have missed the original mail.

Henning listed the most likely problem, but it's also possible that
the premissions on the device file (/dev/usb/scanner0) are not set
for read and write access. You can find out if this is the case by
either looking at the output of ls -l /dev/usb/scanner0, or by
trying to run the backend as root user. If this works, then you
have a permissions problem.

Karl Heinz

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:08AM -0400, powlow wrote:
>> i have an 'epson perfection 1650 photo' scanner and have just
>> reinstalled my machine with red hat 7.3 with all the relevant updates.
>>
>> when my computer is booting, the scanner (usb) seems to be polled as
>> the main light blinks (a sign of activity for this printer).
>> using the sane-backends utility sane-find-scanner, the scanner is
>> found  with vendor and model code. however, when starting xsane, an
>> error of  no device found apears and the program exits, not even
>> allowing any  configuration.
>
> I'm not an expert in Epson scanners but as nobody else answered yet I
> will try:
>
> Looks like the scanner is detected by the system correctly but the epson
> backends can't find it. Does /etc/sane.d/epson.conf contain the line
> "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" (or whatever device sane-find-scanner prints)?
> Maybe you have to remove a comment ("#") character at the beginning of
> the line.
>
> If this doesn't work, maybe you can find out the source of the
> problem with:
>
> SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255 scanimage -L
>
>> someone here at work spoke of hot plug(?) as a good idea to install.
>
> The hotplug utilities can be used to automatically load the kernel USB
> scanner driver or set up permissions correctly. As sane-find-scanner
> finds the scanner I don't think that's the problem in your case.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
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