Hi Karl,
I was just wondering if you had any ideas on how to troubleshoot what the
problem is? I really need to get this scanner working :(
Thanks for any help,
Steven
On Friday 20 April 2001 12:48 pm, you wrote:
> Steven,
>
> please read the information on the following pages:
> http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/suse71.html
> http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane
>
> To find out what exactly goes wrong, please turn on debugging for
> the EPSON backend:
>
> export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128
> xsane > /tmp/scan.log 2>&1
>
> Please email the log file to my email address _AND NOT TO THE LIST_ -
> my address is khk@khk.net
>
> Karl Heinz
>
> Steven Hatfield <ashari@knightswood.net> said:
> > Hi all,
> > I have an Epson Perfection 1240U, and am trying to get it going under
> > SuSE 7.1. I have a vanilla 2.4.3 kernel installed and compiled with USB /
> > UHCI / SCANNER all as modules. This is my first attempt at using a USB
> > device, and unfortunately I'm not having any luck with it :(
> >
> > I have /etc/sane.d/epson.conf containing just:
> > usb /dev/usb/scanner0
> >
> > I insert the scanner module with the line:
> > insmod scanner product=0x10b vendor=0x4b8
> >
> > and when I type lsmod, I get:
> > usbcore 46832 1 [scanner usb-uhci]
> > usb-uhci 21776 0 (unused)
> > scanner 6256 0
> >
> > I have the following installed:
> > sane-1.0.4-3
> > xsane-0.70-0
> >
> > When I type "xsane" at the shell prompt, I get the message:
> > xsane: no devices available
> > and in the console, it shows:
> > [epson] ident failed
> >
> > In /var/log/messages, I see:
> > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> > char-major-
>
> 81
>
> > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot last message repeated 4 times
> > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
> > 135 Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK
> > recieved. Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status
> > 3, frame# 143 Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner:
> > NAK recieved.
> >
> > So I tried a different tactic:
> >
> > I used "xsane -s epson:/dev/usbscanner" as the shell prompt command, and
> > received the message box:
> > Failed to open device "epson:/dev/usbscanner":
> > Invalid Argument
> >
> > and in the console, I see:
> > [epson] ident failed
> >
> > /var/log/messages shows:
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> > char-major-
>
> 81
>
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot last message repeated 4 times
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
>
> 1963
>
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK recieved.
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
>
> 1970
>
> > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK recieved.
> > Apr 20 12:32:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(0): Scanner
> > device is already open
> >
> > lsmod still shows the same as before at this point (unused/0 for both
> > uhci and scanner modules).
> >
> > What am I doing wrong, and what can I do to get the scanner to work?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > -Steven
> >
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