[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1260P

[gerard klaver]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 10:34, bjs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't get my Epson Perfection 1260 Photo working. It worked OK with SuSE 9.0 
> but broke when I ungraded to SuSE 9.1. I've now upgraded to SuSE 9.2 and it 
> still does not work. Connection is via USB. The EP1260Pis reported as 
> 'Complete' on the SANE web site. I did an automatic installation with YAST2.
> 
> As root or as normal user, I get:
> 
> sane-find-scanner reports: found USB Scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], 
> product=0x011d [EPSON scanner], chip=LM9832/3 at libusb:001:003
> 
> scanimage -L reports: No scanners were identified
> 
> scanimage -d test -T reports: all tests (17) PASS
> 
> scanimage -d plustek -T reports: open of device plustek failed: invalid 
> argument [Have I misunderstood the man page?]
> 
> /etc/hotplug/usb/sane.usermap contains the single line:
> desktopdev 0x0003 0x468 0x11d 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00  0x0
> 
> /etc/ld.so.conf contains /usr/local/lib but does not 
> contain /usr/local/lib/sane
> 
> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf has plustek uncommented.
> 
> /etc/sane.d/epson.conf has:
> 
> #SCSI scanner:
> scsi EPSON
> .
> .
> #USB scanner:
> usb
> 
> Can anyone help? How do I check to see if there is more than one backend 
> installed? I did an upgrade rather than a clean installation so something 
> could have been left rather than  uninstalled in the change from 9.0 to9.1.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bernard

If you are using sane-backends 1.0.14 installed (scanimage --version)
disable the epson backend in dll.conf by placing a # before epson or
update to 1.0.15
See SANE bugreport 300751 for reason

Also check if permissions of ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001/003 are at least
rw-rw-   (001/003 is your scanner)




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