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

[Guillaume Courtois]

Hum, my idea was to install EVERYTHING from git. The backend and the 
frontend. And if you do so, you have to remove all standard packages 
from your ubuntu install to avoid conflicts (I should have been more 
precise for sure).

Le 17/11/2014 18:38, Pierre LINDENBAUM a écrit :
>> This is not the location of the regularly installed libsane package.> 
>> You have installed something compiled from source as well.  This is
> 
>> often a source of problems.  Is there any particular reason you need
>> to use this self-built version?
> 
> 
> Guillaume suggested to install libsane from the git repo. I used the
> default options for ./configure that is --prefix=/usr/local
>> If you end up using the dll backend from /usr/local/lib/sane/ it will
> 
>> in all likelihood *not* read the configuration in /etc/sane.d/.
> 
> 
> you're right ! I've added a debug message in '/etc/epson.conf'.
> Running iscan with some debug flags prints the message
> 
> 
> 
> (...)
> [epson] sane_init, ># epson.conf<
> [epson] sane_init, ># HELLO I'm IN /usr/local !<
> (...)
> 
> 
> I copied all '*.conf' from /usr/local/etc/sane.d/*.conf to /etc/sane.d
> 
> 
> $ sudo scanimage  -L
> device `epson:libusb:002:003' is a Epson  flatbed scanner
> 
> $ sudo sane-find-scanner  | grep USB
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON
> Scanner]) at libusb:002:003
> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be 
> supported by
> 
> 
> 
>> From what I see iscan loads the latest libraries from /usr/local/lib
> 
> Still a problem: I've copied the full debug trace of iscan in:
> 
> 
> https://gist.github.com/lindenb/bc7b85f7a4bf71ff500f
> 
> please note that the trace contains some non-ascii chars (replaced
> here with '####' below :):
> 
> (...)
> [epson] code   15
> [epson] type     ####0x01
> [epson] level    0x00
> [epson] no option equipment installed
> [epson] Unknown type  #####or level , using B3
> 
> (...)
> 
> 
>> It is non-free in the sense that the source is not made available.
> 
> 
> I see
> 
> 
> Another comment: there is no /dev/usb , all is found under /dev/bus/usb
> 
> 
> $ ls -la /dev/bus/usb/002/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       80 Nov 17 17:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root      180 Nov 17 17:52 ..
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 Nov 17 18:34 001
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 130 Nov 17 18:34 003
> 
> 
> 
> thank you for your help.
> 
> Pierre