Hello,
I'm new to sane so I apologize if there is something obvious
I missed in the FAQ and installation instructions. My situation
is as follows:
I run a Redhat 6.2(SMP) system and recently bought an Epson
GT8700 scanner. I realized this model isn't officialy supported,
under SANE but was encouraged by the "supported Epson scanners"
thread in this mailing list. This scanner has a SCSI interface
which I have connected to my PC's on-board Symbios SCSI.
I set the sg buffer in /usr/include/scsi/sg.h to the 130560 size
suggested in the sane-scsi man page, and recompiled the
kernel, although I later learned that this probably wasn't
necessarty for my 2.2.14 kernel(?). In any case, the sanner
shows up in the boot message.
SANE (and xsane) compile with no reported problems.
I try the following scanimage comands:
# scanimage --list-devices
device `epson:/dev/sgb' is a Epson GT-8700 flatbed scanner
# scanimage --device epson:/dev/sgb --help
Usage: scanimage [OPTION]...
.... a long list of options, ending with:
List of available devices:
epson:/dev/sgb
(the scanner makes a brief but reassuring noise when I
run these). However, if I try to preview using xscanimage
or xsane, I get the error message
Error during read: Invalid argument
in a Gtk box, and
[epson] option: fatal error
in my terminal window. Needless to say, I am unable to
acquire any scanned images, preview or otherwise.
Can anyone please offer some suggestion as to how
to proceed in order to overcome or diagnose this
problem? Thanks,
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Phil R Cummins cummins@jamstec.go.jp
Frontier Research for Subduction Dynamics tel(i/d):81/0-468-67-3393
JAMSTEC, 2-15 Natsushima-cho fax(i/d):81/0-468-67-3409
Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan http://w3.jamstec.go.jp:5090/
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