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

[Dr. Michael Kaplan]

m. allan noah schrieb:
> 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

My dll.conf has only the 2 entries "epson2" and "net".

The only entry in epson2.conf is "usb 0x04b8 0x010b"

since lsusb shows

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:010b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1240

and the content of net.conf is:

connect_timeout = 30
localhost
192.168.1.28

Thanks, Michael

> 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