[sane-devel] A problem with Epson GT2500

Wolfram Heider wolframheider at freenet.de
Wed Apr 22 12:00:46 UTC 2009


It seems to be a pretty choosy bug - on my boxes (various 32 and 64 bit systems running under Opensuse 11.1 and 11.0) iscan 1.19 and the epkowa backend are working fine, and testing with all frontends available didn't show any problems.
So could it be related just to particular distributions/operating systems?


Wolfram Heider






On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:55:46 +0200, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:

> "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,



-- 
Wolfram Heider



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