[sane-devel] lamp on Epson Perfection 1650 never turns off]

[Martin Kho]

Hi Mark,

I have the same scanner. The lamp turns off after ca. 15 minutes. I'm using RH 
8.0, sane-backends 1.0.12 and xsane 0.91. Maybe it's a hardware problem?

Martin


On Friday 08 August 2003 19:41, Mark O. Schlegel wrote:
> Someone ("Andrew") here:
>
> http://reviews.cnet.com/4852-3136_7-6704410.html?legacy=cnet
>
> reviewed the 1650 and says it goes off after idling 15 minutes. But I
> bet he's on windows, is it possible the linux usb
> code does something different so that it stays on? I'm sure mine
> stays on beyond 15 minutes. I think I'll try unplugging the usb cable
> to make sure it's idle to test this.
>
> I found the left hand button being on just flags that the scanner is
> ready to go. (continuous green is ready, red is error condition,
> blinking green is scanning)
>
> Mark
>
> Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> > I'm CC'ing this to the sane-devel list. You only replied to me, and not
> > to the list.
> >
> > I would not call it a "clock", but there is a timer in the scanner that
> > keeps track of the
> > lamp, and it's supposed to turn the lamp off after a certain time (I
> > don't know however
> > how long it's supposed to stay on).
> >
> > I don't have a Perfection 1650, and therefore don't know how the buttons
> > work. When
> > you say the button stays on, what do you mean by that?
> >
> > Have you tried to just let it sit for a while (e.g. 30 minutes) to see
> > what happens?
> >
> > Karl Heinz
> >
> > On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Mark O. Schlegel wrote:
> >> Karl,
> >>
> >> What would be the all the possible entries that are valid for
> >> epson.conf for the USB case then?  Is it just:
> >>
> >> usb /dev/usb/scanner0
> >>
> >>
> >> I think I got the lampOff and that other stuff from a page where
> >> they were talking about multiple scanners where one was the perfection
> >> 1650, I bet the lampOff, etc was for plustek.
> >>
> >> I still don't understand then why my bulb never turns off, you think
> >> there's a clock in the scanner that automatically turns it off if
> >> a scan hasn't occurred for a while?  I've been noticing the left most
> >> button stays on, maybe it's in some odd state where the timer isn't
> >> used. thanks,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
> >>> Where did you find information about the option commands that you
> >>> put into epson.conf? These commands are interpreted as additional
> >>> scanners, and because you don't have any devices named "option warmup
> >>> 30",
> >>> they are ingored.
> >>> There are no commands to turn of the lamp for the EPSON scanners that
> >>> use the ESC-I command set (pretty much any EPSON scanner with the
> >>> exception of Perfection 660, 1250 and 1260).
> >>> The lamp should automatically be turned off by the scanner.
> >>> Karl Heinz
> >>>
> >>> On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Mark O. Schlegel wrote:
> >>>> I'm using the xsane/sane that came with Red Hat 9 with my Perfection
> >>>> 1650. I seem to remember when I first installed RH 9 and used the
> >>>> scanner that the bulb would eventually turn off to rest. Now it's
> >>>> just running all the time I have power applied to the scanner.
> >>>> Note that the scanner is working and I get good scans off it
> >>>> the only problem is the bulb staying on.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have all the entries except 'epson' commented out of the dll.conf
> >>>> file and in my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file I added:
> >>>>
> >>>> option warmup    30
> >>>> option lOffOnEnd 1
> >>>> option lampOff   240
> >>>>
> >>>> Figuring 4 minutes is ok to off the lamp (might be a bit long),
> >>>> not too sure what warmup does, I guess that slowly ramps up
> >>>> power to the bulb over 30 seconds. From what I've read, lampOff and
> >>>> lOffOnEnd seem to be conflicting options, if you set lOffOnEnd to
> >>>> 1 (true), then closing xsane would do the sane_close which would
> >>>> turn the bulb off immediately, so does that override the lampOff of
> >>>> 240 secs?
> >>>>
> >>>> So my question is, is the above the way (epson.conf settings) to get
> >>>> the
> >>>> bulb to switch off or not? I've also added the option line for the
> >>>> Epson
> >>>> to the modules.conf file  (0x04b8 and 0x011):
> >>>>
> >>>> options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0110
> >>>> which doesn't affect the bulb issue I think.
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>> Mark
> >>>>
> >>>>
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