[sane-devel] Scanning negatives with Epson Perferction 1260 Photo

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:54:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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 :(

Sorry about that, I forgot to tell mutt to stick in my real address 
instead of the default.  Should be okay now.

> 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.

If you have the net backend enabled, start up can be slow depending on 
your network setup.  For home use, I would expect iscan to start within 
a minute, though.

> >  Where did you install the backend?
> 
> /usr/local/bin/iscan

Your regular `./configure && make && su -c 'make install'`, it seems.

> The epkowa.conf was installed in /usr/local/etc/sane.d, after modding 
> it for usb rather than parport.

Huh, epkowa.conf by default only does SCSI and USB, but anyway.
 
> All backends appear to be installed in /usr/local/lib/sane, and the 
> epkowa stuff looks like this in there:
> [root at 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?

Hmm, .so and .la files need execute permissions.  Should fix that.

> Humm, from the cli, "xsane" leaves this behind:
> [root at coyote root]# xsane
> [epson] Could not find "libesint1F.so".

Hmm, the epkowa backend that comes with iscan-1.5.2 should have said

  [epkowa] Could not find "libesint1F.so".

in case it really couldn't find it.  Not [epson].  Looks like you have 
an old iscan backend lying around.

> But
> [root at 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 at coyote root]# ls -l `locate libesint1F`
> 
> Wrapping that up in an ls -l shows
> [root at 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 at 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 ;-}

Typo!  That is not 1.5.3 but 1.5.2.

> >  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 at 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

Uh, you should have "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" there.  Perhaps the epson 
backend supports this syntax, but the epkowa backend doesn't, AFAIK.

> And I hope this is enough clues to name the perp. :-)

I'd suggest uninstalling the sane-backends (RPM and home-built stuff), 
uninstalling iscan (RPM and home-built stuff) and then reinstall the 
sane-backends followed by a reinstall of iscan.
The newer versions of iscan no longer clobber files from sane-backends 
like they used to.
-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen                            EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS
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