Re: Epson GT-5000 (parallel port)

Oliver Graf (ograf@rhein-zeitung.de)
04 Apr 1999 01:08:02 +0200

David Taylor <davidt@xfiles.nildram.co.uk> writes:

> I've tried using the sane-epson backend, but it simply hangs (needs a
> kill -9 to stop it), catting from /dev/lp1 once turns off the 'Ready'
> light, catting a second time results in an IO error. catting to /dev/lp1
> appears to work fine, except pressing Ctrl-D doesnt exit.. I'm not entirly
> sure that the epson backend isn't just treating it like a SCSI scanner,
> even though it appears to have parallel support in it - if i remove the
> code for setting 'is_scsi' and set it to 0, it instead says
> 'scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument'... So, I dunno.

What did you set as 'device' in epson.conf?

Regards,
Oliver.

--
Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com