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

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 04 August 2003 20:49, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>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.

<G>

>> 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.

Yup.

>> 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.

I just looked at the one in /usr/src/iscan-1.5.2 (the src dir) and it 
has no mention of scsi.  None, nada, xip.

>> 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.
>
Looks to me like they do have 'x' perms.  Am I missing something?

>> 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.

I did indeed, ripped it out, now no access at all even if I let it sit 
for 2 or 3 mminutes.

>> 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.

No rpms remain.  All the other scanner/camera/bttv stuff works just 
fine, with xsane findng a total of 6 devices, just not this one.
I'll try that tomorrow, tonight its getting sleepy out.

-- 
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