[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett@verizon.net
Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:54:27 -0400
Olaf, this message is bouncing from zen.epkowa.co.jp, no such site it
says. But I'll assume the ml now has 2 copies :(
On Sunday 03 August 2003 21:55, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I just tried yesterday to make and install iscan-1.5.2, and I
>> think I've fixed the .dll and the epkowa files in sane.d, but
>> neither xsane, sane-find-scanner nor scan-image -L shows it.
>>
>> Suggestions appreciated, other than boiling my head :)
>
>Hi Gene,
>
>First and foremost question: what does `iscan` say? Does it find
> your scanner?
>
'iscan' by itself from a cli doesn't return anything within a minute
or so. The scanner does move ever so slightly, but the lamp doesn't
come on, and I eventually ctrl-c'd it.
>Looks like you compiled your own from the tarball.
Yes.
> Where did you
>install the backend?
/usr/local/bin/iscan
The epkowa.conf was installed in /usr/local/etc/sane.d, after modding
it for usb rather than parport.
All backends appear to be installed in /usr/local/lib/sane, and the
epkowa stuff looks like this in there:
[root@coyote root]# ls -l /usr/local/lib/sane/*-epkowa.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376302 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 822 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so -> libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1 -> libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 262660 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.6
Are those perms correct?
> It had better where all the other backends are
>installed or you need to fiddle with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When testing
>during development, I routinely install somewhere below $HOME and
> then run iscan after exporting that variable (just setting it on
> the command line does not work).
>So let's say I
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/home/olaf/tmp/iscan
> $ make
> $ make install # installing in $HOME, no need for root!
>
>then I need to
>
> $ export
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/olaf/tmp/iscan/lib/sane:/home/olaf/tmp/iscan/
>lib
>
>before iscan (or any other frontend for that matter) can find the
>backend. All other sane backends on my system are in /usr/lib/sane
>which is where they are for most of the more common distributions.
># SCO UnitedLinux is an exception ...
>
Humm, from the cli, "xsane" leaves this behind:
[root@coyote root]# xsane
[epson] Could not find "libesint1F.so".
But
[root@coyote root]# locate ibesint1F.so
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so.1.0.0
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so
/usr/src/iscan-1.5.2/esint1F/libesint1F.so
/[root@coyote root]# ls -l `locate libesint1F`
Wrapping that up in an ls -l shows
[root@coyote root]# ls -l `locate libesint1F`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so -> libesint1F.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so.1 -> libesint1F.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 470129 Aug 1 07:08
/usr/local/lib/libesint1F.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 159836 Jan 21 2003
/usr/src/iscan-1.5.0/esint1F/libesint1F.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 1000 470129 Jun 23 05:34
/usr/src/iscan-1.5.2/esint1F/libesint1F.so
and an echo of LD_LIBRARY_PATH as exported by that same shell is:
[root@coyote root]# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/sane:/root/kde3.1.1/lib:(repeat last
path entry about 10x times, no idea why)
>BTW, 1.5.3 is out and there are even packages for gcc-3.x systems.
> I seem to remember you griping about their absence ;-}
Humm, that I did. 1.5.2 is the first one that would actually build for
me, all earlier ones died on the pisa stuff in the gui. But that was
after the libs were built, so a make install would put enough stuff
in that xsane could find it and use it ok back at one of the earlier
sane versions.
>If you install from RPM the %post (postinst for you Debian fans)
> takes care of the required modifications and iscan should work
> out-of-the-box on most systems and distributions with SCSI and USB
> scanners. You do need access to the device of course.
># The RPM spec file is in the SRPM (will be added to the tarball).
>
I did that(installed the object rpms), but then recalled that since
sane is built from tarballs, then iscan should be too & tried to have
rpm rip it out, but rpm gave me a weird malloc fail error like maybe
its rebuilddb time. So I just fired that off for grins as thats the
second time I seen that error recently. Amanda will probably
complain :)
>Some semi-random thoughts:
>
> Does `grep epkowa /etc/sane.d/dll.conf` show an uncommented entry
> for epkowa?
Yes
> What does your /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf look like?
--------------
root@coyote root]# cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
# epkowa.conf
#
# examples for how to configure the SANE EPSON KOWA Backend
#
# SCSI scanner:
# scsi EPSON
#
# Parallel port scanner:
#pio 0x278
#pio 0x378
#pio 0x3BC
#
# USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It
# could otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being
# recognized.
usb
device /dev/usb/scanner0
--------------
>
>Hope that helps,
And I hope this is enough clues to name the perp. :-)
--
Cheers Olaf, Gene
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