[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 2400 TPU problem

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

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Try to cut out the scanner.o driver and use the libusb interface=20
instead. One way to accomplish this is by unloading the scanner
module manually (as root):  /sbin/rmmod scanner
Then change the entry in epson.conf from "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" to
just "usb".=20

Karl Heinz


On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 07:17:30PM +0200, Roberto Lumbreras wrote:
> Hi...
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> I need some help with the TPU of an Epson Scanner.
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> I'm trying to use the Transparency Unit of my Epson Perfection 2400
> Photo (recognized as Epson GT-9300), to scan negatives. All I can tell
> is that it doesn't work at all...
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> I've increased the timeout of the scanner usb driver (passing the
> parameter read_timeout to the module), but nothing changes.
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> The scanner seems to start scanning, but xsane just dies after some
> time, while the scanner continues "scanning". After that, I have to
> remove scanner and usb-uhci modules and unplug/plug the scanner to use
> the scanner again.
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> I'm using kernel 2.4.20 and sane 1.0.11 and xsane 0.91 (debian
> packages).
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> Scanning with the "flatbed" source works ok. I've tried the scanner with
> win98 and the scanner works ok (well, the software is horrible, I'm
> still trying to get just the files saved!)
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> Some debugging output with SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=3D128 can be found at
> http://rover.thehackers.org/sane/
> When the file xsane.out ends xsane segfaulted.
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> Can anybody help me?
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> Salud,
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> Roberto Lumbreras           .''`.           =20
>                     <rover : :' : debian.org>
> Debian Developer           `. `'            =20
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