[sane-devel] Sane problem with ADF on Epson Perfection 1640SU

[Terje J. Hanssen]

Additonal information to my previous mails about this problem:

I just got the following mail from a reader of my previous mail on the 
Suse Linux mailing list. It looks like the ADF problem is related to 
newer versions of the epson sane library, as version 1.0.8 worked, see 
below.

Terje

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Dear Terje,

> Flatbed scanning works, but trying to use the ADF results in the
> following error: "Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O",
> and no scanning starts. (Just to verify that the ADF works: the
> included scanner software, Epson Smartpanel for scanners and Epson
> Twain5, works ADF scanning in Windows).


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*I had the same Epson ADF problem, using Suse linux 9.1. Flatbed scanning
worked fine. Previously using Suse 8.1 the ADF worked fine. I then found
that the problem is with version 1.0.13 of the epson sane library. I
solved the problem by downgrading this library to version 1.0.8 (that I
had in Suse 8.1). Now the ADF works fine.

For doing that, I copied the old
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.8
to the /usr/lib/sane/ directory, and relinked the symbolic links
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so and /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1 to
it, instead of to /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.13.
Then performed ldconfig.

I did not check version 1.0.14 of sane.

Hope this will work for you as well,

Sincerely,
*

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Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

> I have tried xsane, xscanimage and scanadf for my scsi Epson 1640SU 
> ADF as proposed on this list.
> Flatbed scanning works, but trying to use the ADF results in the 
> following error:
> "Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O", and no scanning 
> starts.
>
> Therefore I just wonder:
> Has somebody succeed with Sane for any Epson ADF scanner?
>
> Regards,
> Terje J. Hanssen
>
>