Re: Epson Perfection 1240U

From: Steven Hatfield (ashari@knightswood.net)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 10:12:43 PDT

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    Hi Karl,
    I was just wondering if you had any ideas on how to troubleshoot what the
    problem is? I really need to get this scanner working :(

    Thanks for any help,
    Steven

    On Friday 20 April 2001 12:48 pm, you wrote:
    > Steven,
    >
    > please read the information on the following pages:
    > http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/suse71.html
    > http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane
    >
    > To find out what exactly goes wrong, please turn on debugging for
    > the EPSON backend:
    >
    > export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=128
    > xsane > /tmp/scan.log 2>&1
    >
    > Please email the log file to my email address _AND NOT TO THE LIST_ -
    > my address is khk@khk.net
    >
    > Karl Heinz
    >
    > Steven Hatfield <ashari@knightswood.net> said:
    > > Hi all,
    > > I have an Epson Perfection 1240U, and am trying to get it going under
    > > SuSE 7.1. I have a vanilla 2.4.3 kernel installed and compiled with USB /
    > > UHCI / SCANNER all as modules. This is my first attempt at using a USB
    > > device, and unfortunately I'm not having any luck with it :(
    > >
    > > I have /etc/sane.d/epson.conf containing just:
    > > usb /dev/usb/scanner0
    > >
    > > I insert the scanner module with the line:
    > > insmod scanner product=0x10b vendor=0x4b8
    > >
    > > and when I type lsmod, I get:
    > > usbcore 46832 1 [scanner usb-uhci]
    > > usb-uhci 21776 0 (unused)
    > > scanner 6256 0
    > >
    > > I have the following installed:
    > > sane-1.0.4-3
    > > xsane-0.70-0
    > >
    > > When I type "xsane" at the shell prompt, I get the message:
    > > xsane: no devices available
    > > and in the console, it shows:
    > > [epson] ident failed
    > >
    > > In /var/log/messages, I see:
    > > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
    > > char-major-
    >
    > 81
    >
    > > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot last message repeated 4 times
    > > Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
    > > 135 Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK
    > > recieved. Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status
    > > 3, frame# 143 Apr 20 12:29:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner:
    > > NAK recieved.
    > >
    > > So I tried a different tactic:
    > >
    > > I used "xsane -s epson:/dev/usbscanner" as the shell prompt command, and
    > > received the message box:
    > > Failed to open device "epson:/dev/usbscanner":
    > > Invalid Argument
    > >
    > > and in the console, I see:
    > > [epson] ident failed
    > >
    > > /var/log/messages shows:
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
    > > char-major-
    >
    > 81
    >
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot last message repeated 4 times
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
    >
    > 1963
    >
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK recieved.
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame#
    >
    > 1970
    >
    > > Apr 20 12:31:59 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: write_scanner: NAK recieved.
    > > Apr 20 12:32:01 lancelot kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(0): Scanner
    > > device is already open
    > >
    > > lsmod still shows the same as before at this point (unused/0 for both
    > > uhci and scanner modules).
    > >
    > > What am I doing wrong, and what can I do to get the scanner to work?
    > >
    > > Thanks for any help!
    > > -Steven
    > >
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