[sane-devel] Fail to scan with Epson perfection v10

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Jonne Zutt <j.zutt at tudelft.nl> writes:

> Dear Sane developers,
>
> Recently I've bought an Epson Perfection v10, and I'd love to make this
> work under Linux (Fedora Core 6) as well (windows works), but I run
> into troubles here.
>
> $ sane-find-scanner |grep 0x04b8
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012d [EPSON
> Scanner]) at libusb:005:006
>
> $ xsane
> -> uses my TV-card. Does not present a dialog box at start-up, so I guess
> it cannot detect my scanner?
>
> $ iscan
> -> immediately fails with messagebox "Could not send command to scanner.
> Check the scanner's status.".
> At that moment, my scanner is connected to power and usb.
>
> $ rpm -qa |grep sane
> libsane-hpaio-1.6.10-1.fc6.4
> sane-backends-1.0.18-5.fc6
> sane-frontends-1.0.14-1.2.2
> xsane-gimp-0.991-4.fc6
> xsane-0.991-4.fc6
> sane-backends-libs-1.0.18-5.fc6
>
> $ rpm -qa |grep iscan
> iscan-2.3.0-1.c2
> iscan-plugin-gt-s600-2.0.0-1.c2

Check this FAQ:

  http://avasys.jp/hp/page000000600/hpg000000578.htm

Hope this helps,
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