Hello, On May 4 15:25 Koenraad Lelong wrote (shortened):
I have an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo scanner. It's connected via firewire. It used to work fine with older Suses using xsane. Recently I installed OS 11.2 64bit. I had to install xsane 32 bit, because the "driver" is 32bit.
According to http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Epson&model=2450&bus=any&v=&p= the Epson Perfection 2450 with USB vendor and model ID 0x04b8 0x0112 (see the "lsusb" output if your scanners ISB ID is really the same) should be supported both by the native SANE drivers "epson" and "epson2". In YaST you may have to use the search function to search for "2450" to get all such models with all available drivers listed in a more convenient way.
When I setup the scanner via yast, all seems OK. But xsane can't detect the scanner. When I do scanimage from the command-line (probably with some parameters) I do get something on the screen (a huge number of garbage-charachters) and the scanner moves it's scanning head.
First of all "scanimage -L" must display your scanner. Also YaST runs "scanimage -L" to show accessible scanners. If this does not happen, SANE (more precisely: the driver) is not able to access the scanner and then neither scanimage nor xsane can work with the scanner. If "scanimage -L" only displays the scanner when the command is executed by the user "root", only root is able to access the scanner, but not the normal users. In this case the best workaround to get those kind of issues out of sight is to use the "saned" which is a service for scanning via network. In YaST you can set up this workaround via the "Local Host Configuration" under "Other" and "Scanning via Network". To have firewall protection against unwanted access to the saned, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_and_SANE_Firewall_settings Also see "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 how to debug it with scanimage from the command-line. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org