[sane-devel] A problem with Epson GT2500

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

"m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> writes:

> yesterday on the list this was announced as a problem with iscan.
> downgrade to 2.17, iirc.

That correct, almost.  The problem is in the epkowa backend and does not
affect iscan.  Other SANE frontends may be affected, scanimage is known
to be affected.
For the original post, see:

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-April/024488.html

> allan
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Alex Bernier <alex.bernier at free.fr> wrote:
>> Now, I have :
>> - sane-backends-1.0.19
>> - sane-frontends-1.0.14
>> - iscan_2.19.0-4
>>
>> All these programs are now locally compiled from the source code (I don't
>> use anymore Debian packages). But, I have still the same problem...
>> Automatic Document Feeder seems to be "inactive".
>>
>> Is there something I could do to try to debug ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:32:26PM +0200, Wolfram Heider wrote:
>>> caramba!
>>>
>>> I currently ain't able to connect to the Avasys server - it seems to
>>> be offline. Don't they offer .deb packages?  If not, you might take
>>> a .rpm package and convert it to .deb with 'alien' (it's a package
>>> converter program as you may know).
>>>
>>> Wolfram
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:17:38 +0200, Alex Bernier <alex.bernier at free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...I remove my Debian packages, download, compile and install SANE
>>>> backends
>>>> and frontends but iscan doesn't want to compile on my machine... And the
>>>> Debian package can't be installed because it depends of SANE packages.
>>>> :-(
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:19:11PM +0200, Wolfram Heider wrote:
>>>>> For some obscure reasons the Debian guys manage it from time to time
>>>>> to produce broken SANE-packages. Don't know how and why, but it's a
>>>>> constant problem here in the list. So it would be worth a try to get
>>>>> the sane packages directly from the SANE server and to look what's
>>>>> going on then. It already helped in many cases of that kind.
>>>>>
>>>>> And to stress it once more: on my system (Opensuse 11.1) iscan 2.19
>>>>> works fine with the GT-2500 now (while iscan 2.18 didn't). So it
>>>>> should do on yours too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wolfram Heider
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:43:42 +0200, Alex Bernier
>>>>> <alex.bernier at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:41:02PM +0200, Wolfram Heider wrote:
>>>>>>> I had a similar problem (no ADF available) with the scanning to the
>>>>>>> GT-2500 via network (saned) in iscan 2.18 - there was a bug in this
>>>>>>> version confirmed by the Epson guys. However it disappeared in iscan
>>>>>>> 2.19. As I see from your first email you have iscan 2.19 on your
>>>>>>> machine.
>>>>>>> So there must be another reason for it.
>>>>>>> Did you get the sane package from Debian or directly from the SANE
>>>>>>> server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From Debian (testing). Should I try another one ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alex

Hope this helps,
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