[sane-devel] Xsane Crashes with Epson 4180 Scanner

Karl Heinz Kremer khk@khk.net
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:15:16 -0400


It looks like this scanner does not "speak" the ESC/I protocol. At 
least not any flavor that the EPSON backend supports. Maybe Olaf can 
shed some light on this.

Karl Heinz


On Oct 14, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Matt Reuther wrote:

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> On Thursday 14 October 2004 01:32 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
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>> Ok. Just to be safe, comment out "v4l" in dll.conf.
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> Done.
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>> If you start gimp from a console window, I guess you would have seen
>> an error message or even a debug trace.
>>
>> The log still points to reading the option descriptor but I'm not sure
>> if it's an xsane or epson backend problem.
>
> I ran gimp from the console and captured a log. It's attached. All I 
> did in
> gimp was pick File -> Acquire -> Xsane: epson:libusb:004:002, and then
> quit.
>
>> Checking if it happens with scanimage may help.
>>
>> Try something like
>> export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255
>> scanimage -d epson -y 50 -x 50 >/tmp/image.pnm 2>log
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> I did this and attached the output.
>
>> If it's an xsane problem, setting XSANE_DEBUG=something may also help.
>> However, that can create "insane" amounts of logs.
>
> Let me know if you want me to try this.
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>> Bye,
>>   Henning
>
> Matt
> - --
> Matt Reuther
> mreuther@umich.edu
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