scanner stop working after update
Enrique Morfin
Hi!
My system is sid.
The scanner is epson perfection v100 photo
It was working flawlessly (with iscan).
Since last system update (aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade)(friday morining), the scanner stop working.
$lsusb
Bus 004 Device 013: ID 04b8:012d Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection V10/V100 (GT-S600/F650)
$sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012d [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:004:013
$xsane
no devices available (in little window)
$iscan
could not send command to scanner. check the scanners' status.
$scanimage -d epkowa > test.png
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument (and the scanner tries to do something)
$scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
Any ideas? what happend?
I purged all the sane programs, and reinstalled the old versions, but still the same problem.
When the scanner is plugged:
$ls /dev
usbdev4.13_ep00
usbdev4.13_ep02
usbdev4.13_ep81
Could be sane? udev? hal? any other idea?
Thank you.
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Rainer Kluge
>
> My system is sid.
> The scanner is epson perfection v100 photo
>
> It was working flawlessly (with iscan).
Hello,
Which backend do you use: the one provided by the official Debian libsane-extras
package or the one from the Avasys proprietary packages (iscan,
iscan-plugin-gt-s600)? I had similar problems with the V200 and solved by
installing the Avasys packages. Which was a pain because they are in conflict
with libsane-extras.
Rainer
thveillon.debian
> Enrique Morfin schrieb:
>> My system is sid.
>> The scanner is epson perfection v100 photo
>>
>> It was working flawlessly (with iscan).
>
> Hello,
>
> Which backend do you use: the one provided by the official Debian libsane-extras
> package or the one from the Avasys proprietary packages (iscan,
> iscan-plugin-gt-s600)? I had similar problems with the V200 and solved by
> installing the Avasys packages. Which was a pain because they are in conflict
> with libsane-extras.
>
> Rainer
>
>
Hi, this is what apt-listchanges sent me a few days ago :
[quote]
"sane-backends-extras (1.0.19.12) unstable; urgency=low
Starting with sane-backends-extras 1.0.19.12, the epkowa backend for EPSON
scanners is no longer provided. It was no longer possible to
satisfactorily support this backend inside Debian after the iScan!
2.10.0 release, due to a number of issues that could not be resolved or
otherwise settled.
Users relying on this backend should now use the Debian packages
provided by Avasys/EPSON for i386 and amd64, available at
<http://avasys.jp>
(switch to english, follow the Linux driver link or search for Linux
driver, follow the scanner link then fill out the form).
-- Julien BLACHE <jbl...@debian.org> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:46:14 +0100"
[/quote]
This might not be unrelated to your problem. What is a real pain in the
neck is that you can't find an avasys package for amd64 for all scanner
models (the older ones), iscan compilation isn't trivial and it's
conflicting with libsane-extras (as stated previously by Rainer Kluge).
I had to compile iscan on a $buntu amd64 system, and there
libsane-extras isn't a dependency of libsane, which makes things a bit
easier.
The choice of a good scanner for linux users just got trickier... :-(
Tom
Rainer Kluge
>
> Hi, this is what apt-listchanges sent me a few days ago :
>
> [quote]
> "sane-backends-extras (1.0.19.12) unstable; urgency=low
>
> Starting with sane-backends-extras 1.0.19.12, the epkowa backend for EPSON
> scanners is no longer provided. It was no longer possible to
> satisfactorily support this backend inside Debian after the iScan!
> 2.10.0 release, due to a number of issues that could not be resolved or
> otherwise settled.
>
> Users relying on this backend should now use the Debian packages
> provided by Avasys/EPSON for i386 and amd64, available at
Hello,
As I wrote before, installing the Avasys packages creates some problems due to
the conflict with libsane-extras. As some essential packages, in particular
libsane, depend on libsane-extras, removing it is not a solution. What I did on
my testing system is the following:
1) dpkg --force-conflicts -i iscan_2.17.0-3_i386.deb
2) dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-xxxx_2.1.0-2_i386.deb # xxxx depends on scanner type
3) manually delete the iscan and iscan-plugin entries in /var/lib/dpkg/status
I admit that this solution is not proper, but my V200 then works well with the
sane frontends, e.g. xsane. Avasys should remove the conflict with
libsane-extras to solve the issue.
Best Regards
Rainer
Johannes Wiedersich
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Rainer Kluge wrote:
> 1) dpkg --force-conflicts -i iscan_2.17.0-3_i386.deb
> 2) dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-xxxx_2.1.0-2_i386.deb # xxxx depends on scanner type
> 3) manually delete the iscan and iscan-plugin entries in /var/lib/dpkg/status
FWIW, I did:
1)
# dpkg --force-overwrite -i
var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.19.11_i386.deb
2)
# dpkg --force-overwrite -i iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb
I admit that this solution is about just as ugly as Rainer's. (Just in
two lines).
> I admit that this solution is not proper, but my V200 then works well with the
> sane frontends, e.g. xsane. Avasys should remove the conflict with
> libsane-extras to solve the issue.
Agreed.
Cheers,
Johannes
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