[sane-devel] sane + ubuntu 14.04 + Epson perfection 3170

Pierre LINDENBAUM plindenbaum at yahoo.fr
Wed Nov 12 23:43:11 UTC 2014


Hi sane-devels, 



I hope it's the right place to ask my question (it's cross-posted here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/548639/14-04-running-a-epson-scanner-perfection-3170 & http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2252458 )

I used to scan with an Epson perfection 3170 + sane +iscan on linux 12.* 


Since I've switched to ubuntu 14.04 , it doesn't work anymore.

Here are a few outputs (sometimes I need to run as root to make things work)

$ sudo sane-find-scanner  | grep -i epson
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:002:003


## BTW there is a strange binary char after Epson:

$ sudo scanimage -L
device `epson:libusb:002:003' is a Epson �   flatbed scanner


$ tail /etc/sane.d/epson.conf 
usb 0x04b8 0x0116


$ sudo sane-find-scanner  | grep -i epson
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:002:003

head /etc/udev/rules.d/50-libsane-extras.rules 
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0116", MODE="0666", GROUP="scanner"


$ groups lindenb
lindenb : lindenb adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin saned sambashare scanner


$ ls -la /dev/bus/usb/002/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       80 Nov 12 20:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root      180 Nov 12 20:46 ..
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 Nov 13 00:02 001
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 189, 129 Nov 13 00:18 002


iscan: (could not send command to scanner)

sudo iscan: (could not send command to scanner)

and here is the iscan trace:

SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255  iscan
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson to 255.
[epson] sane_init: sane-backends 1.0.23
[epson] sane_init, ># epson.conf<
[epson] sane_init, >#<
[epson] sane_init, ># here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend<
[epson] sane_init, >#<
[epson] sane_init, ># SCSI scanner:<
[epson] sane_init, >scsi EPSON<
[epson] sane_init, ># for the GT-6500:<
[epson] sane_init, >scsi "EPSON SC"<
[epson] sane_init, >#<
[epson] sane_init, ># Parallel port scanner:<
[epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x278<
[epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x378<
[epson] sane_init, >#pio 0x3BC<
[epson] sane_init, >#<
[epson] sane_init, ># USB scanner:<
[epson] sane_init, ># There are two different methods of configuring a USB scanner: libusb and the kernel module<
[epson] sane_init, ># For any system with libusb support (which is pretty much any recent Linux distribution) the<
[epson] sane_init, ># following line is sufficient. This however assumes that the connected scanner (or to be more<
[epson] sane_init, ># accurate, it's device ID) is known to the backend.<
[epson] sane_init, >usb<
[epson] attach_one_usb()
[epson] SANE Epson Backend v0.2.47 - 2006-08-21
[epson] attach(, 3)
[epson] attach: opening 
[epson] sane_init, ># For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command<
[epson] sane_init, ># usb <product ID> <device ID><
[epson] sane_init, ># e.g.:<
[epson] sane_init, ># usb 0x4b8 0x110<
[epson] sane_init, ># And for the scanner module, use the following configuration:<
[epson] sane_init, >#usb /dev/usbscanner0<
[epson] sane_init, >#usb /dev/usb/scanner0<
[epson] sane_init, >usb 0x04b8 0x0116<
[epson] attach_one_usb(libusb:002:002)
[epson] SANE Epson Backend v0.2.47 - 2006-08-21
[epson] attach(libusb:002:002, 3)
[epson] attach: opening libusb:002:002
[epson] Found valid EPSON scanner: 0x4b8/0x116 (vendorID/productID)
[epson] reset()
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 40 @
[epson] w_cmd_count = 1
[epson] r_cmd_count = 0
[epson] w_cmd_count = 1
[epson] r_cmd_count = 1
[epson] receive buf, expected = 1, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] get_identity_information()
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 49 I
[epson] w_cmd_count = 2
[epson] r_cmd_count = 1
[epson] w_cmd_count = 2
[epson] r_cmd_count = 2
[epson] receive buf, expected = 4, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] code   15
[epson] type     0x01
[epson] level    0x00
[epson] no option equipment installed
[epson] Unknown type  or level , using B3
[epson] fbf tlx 0.000000 tly 0.000000 brx 0.000000 bry 0.000000 [mm]
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 44 D
[epson] w_cmd_count = 3
[epson] r_cmd_count = 2
[epson] w_cmd_count = 3
[epson] r_cmd_count = 3
[epson] receive buf, expected = 1, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 44 D
[epson] w_cmd_count = 4
[epson] r_cmd_count = 3
[epson] w_cmd_count = 4
[epson] r_cmd_count = 4
[epson] receive buf, expected = 1, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 44 D
[epson] w_cmd_count = 5
[epson] r_cmd_count = 4
[epson] w_cmd_count = 5
[epson] r_cmd_count = 5
[epson] receive buf, expected = 1, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] Max. supported color depth = 8
[epson] request_focus_position()
[epson] Disabling 'Set Focus' support
[epson] send buf, size = 2
[epson] buf[0] 1b .
[epson] buf[1] 66 f
[epson] w_cmd_count = 6
[epson] r_cmd_count = 5
[epson] w_cmd_count = 6
[epson] r_cmd_count = 6
[epson] receive buf, expected = 4, got = 1
[epson] buf[0] 15 .
[epson] code   15
[epson] scanner model: 
[epson] close_scanner(fd = 0)
[epson] w_cmd_count = 6
[epson] r_cmd_count = 6
[epson] w_cmd_count = 6
[epson] r_cmd_count = 6
[epson] sane_get_devices()
(end)

with some other DEBUG FLAGS the trace ends with :


(...)
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found 1 devices
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: device 00 is libusb:002:002
[dll] init: backend `ls5000' is version 1.0.0
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_find_devices: vendor=0x04b0, product=0x4002
[dll] load: searching backend `hpaio' in `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane:/usr/lib/sane'
[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] load: couldn't open `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1' (No such file or directory)
[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] init: initializing backend `hpaio'
[dll] init: backend `hpaio' is version 1.0.0
[dll] sane_get_devices: found 1 devices


any idea how to run my scanner under ubuntu 14.04 ?

thanks,

Pierre



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