[sane-devel] ADF Epson 1640 does work any more

[m. allan noah]

try using scanadf cli tool, just to see if it is a backend or frontend 
problem.

allan

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Alex wrote:

> Hello !
>
>
> I am using an Epson Perfection 1640 SU with ADF. Everything used to work
> perfectly. I have not used my ADF for few months and now I have a problem
> with it. I assume this is due to upgrade. I am sure this worked fine in
> october with Debian testing/Sarge.
>
> I am now using sane 1.0.17 and xsane 0.99 (Debian Etch, personnal kernel
> 2.6.15.2):
>
> #dpkg -l | grep sane
> ii  libsane                      1.0.17-3
> ii  sane-utils                   1.0.17-3
> ii  xsane                        0.99+0.991-1
> ii  xsane-common                 0.99+0.991-1
>
>
> When I choose ADF in xsane, the scan of the first page begins, OK, but in
> the end the page stays in the feeder. The ADF doesn't eject the page
> and doesn't reinitialize for the second page. I have to click the scan
> button again to eject the page and begin the next scan (I can also click
> on ADF source to reinitialize).
>
> I've just search the past 12 months archive and didn't find anything
> helpful. Does anyone have the same problem ? Is there a solution to use my
> ADF without clicking for each page ? A command line using scanimage might
> also help me.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Alex
>
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>

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