[sane-devel] iscan: "Could not send command to scanner"

[Ole Jacob Taraldset]

This might have been an easier fix, but I got a hint in a previous post. I 
downloaded an experimental sane-backends package and now iscan works just 
fine.

-Ole Jacob

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 6:32 am, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Ole Jacob Taraldset <ojt at gexcon.com> writes:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I have an Epson Perfection 1650 Photo which I have been using with
> > iscan.  Now suddenly iscan doesn't work any more and just give me a
> > dialog box saying "Could not send command to scanner".  Xsane still
> > works and recognizes my scanner without any problems.
> >
> > My system is a RedHat 9 box with freshrpms updates and the following:
> > sane-backends-1.0.9-5.1
> > sane-frontends-1.0.9-2
> > xsane-0.89-3
> > iscan-1.5.2-1.redhat.8.0
>
> Hmm, that ought to work provided the libsane.so symlink points to the
> right library.  There is a known bug on RH9 where /usr/lib/libsane.so
> points to the v4l SANE backend.  Check if this is the case and fix it
> if so.
>
> To check:
>
>   $ ls -l /usr/lib/libsane.so
>
> To fix (requires root permissions):
>
>   # ln -fs libsane.so.1.0.9 /usr/lib/libsane.so
>
> > I've also tried iscan 1.4, but get the same result.
>
> Never mind that version.  It was very much not nice in that it quietly
> overwrote the epson backend.
>
> > My /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf contains:
> >
> > usb /dev/usb/scanner0
>
> That should be fine.
>
> > My /etc/sane.d/epson.conf contains:
> >
> > usb /dev/usb/scanner0
>
> For the record, iscan does not use the epson backend.  It is *not* a
> proper SANE frontend in that respect.
>
> > I have tried to remove one or the other but this doesn't seem to help.
>
> Hope this helps,

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