[sane-devel] xsane ignoring .sane-entries?

[m. allan noah]

for starters, lets see if we can get the epson to show up with
scanimage -L, maybe check the contents of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and
make sure epson is enabled (though in theory, epson2 should support
your machine)

allan

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Dr. Michael Kaplan
<dr.michaelkaplan at alice-dsl.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using F16 on an AMD64 machine.
>
> I have 2 scanners, a hp in my home network and an epson on the usb port.
>
> sane-find-scanner reports:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010b [Perfection1240])
> at libusb:004:002
>
> scanimage -L reports:
>
> device `hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?zc=HP2CEF9D' is a Hewlett-Packard
> Officejet_6500_E710a-f all-in-one
>
> If I call
>
> xsane epson:libusb:004:002
> or
> xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?ip=192.168.1.28
>
> xsane works fine.
>
> I deleted the .sane-directory in my homedir and created a new one by
> saving options from xsane. The .sane-directory now looks like
>
> $ ls .sane/xsane/
> batch-lists
> epson:libusb:004:002.drc
> hpaio:_net_Officejet__6500__E710a-f_ip=192.168.1.28.drc
> xsane.mdf
> xsane.rc
>
> My problem is that a xsane call without argument doesn't find my
> devices and reports an I/O error with
> hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?zc=HP2CEF9D
>
> Why does xsane ignore my .sane/xsane/ ?
>
> My system apparently uses 2 different versions of xsane:
>
> /usr/bin/xsane (without gimp support)
> /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xsane (with gimp support)
>
> but both have the same problem.
>
> I tried to change the gimp-Menu to call directly
> xsane epson:libusb:004:002
> or
> xsane hpaio:/net/Officejet_6500_E710a-f?ip=192.168.1.28
> but this didn't work.
>
> Thanks in advance for any idea!
>
> Michael
>
>
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