[opensuse] Scanner help
Hi, 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. 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. What can I do to get xsane working ? Thanks for any pointers. I'll try other scanner-software though, but I'm used to xsane. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, 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. 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. What can I do to get xsane working ? Thanks for any pointers. I'll try other scanner-software though, but I'm used to xsane. I use an Epson scanner under a 64bit OpenSuSE install (11.0 in my case), but I use the Epson-provided iScan frontend for scanning, and it works fine (at least for what I do). You may wish to try that (and it is now
Hello Koenraad, Koenraad Lelong wrote: provided as an OpenSuSE package, I understand). HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com>
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:43 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote: While in the Epson topic, has anyone ever gotten the wireless Epson printers/scanners to work with Linux? I can only get the scanner to work when I hook up the USB cable. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
Johannes Meixner schreef:
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.
It's a puzzling situation. I am certain at some point in my tries, I got a message I needed to use xsane 32bit to be able to use the scanner. So I installed that, which didn't solve my problem. So I asked this list.
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.
Ths scanner is connected to firewire, so I did lsscsi : [10:0:0:0] process EPSON GT-9700 1.05 -
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.
scanimage -L : device `epkowa:/dev/sg9' is a Epson Perfection 2450 flatbed scanner
... As a "normal" user I did "scanimage > test". "file" revealed : Netpbm PBM "rawbits" image data So I tried to open the file with an image viewer, and I saw the page that was in my scanner. So the scanner can be accessed, only xsane can't access the scanner. I looked in the software-setup and I saw that all relevant software is 64bit. Since skanlite, a sane-front-end and 64bit, was installed, I tried that and it worked. I removed the 32bit xsane and installed the 64bit version. Now all is working fine. I don't know why my initial setup advised me to install 32bit xsane. Everyone thanks for your input. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:45 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
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".
Is there any information on this? I can ping my wireless scanner, so I know it is accessible. But scanimage does not find it. Nor does anything I do in Yast->Other->Scanning via Network. So I am missing a step somewhere. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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