Package: sane Version: 1.0.14-9 Severity: normal sane: SANE does not work any more with Epson Perfection 1650. Used to work perfectly.
Hi. I have a Epson Perfection 1650 with slide/foto scanning extension (different top with backlight). This used to work just fine. The first time around 2002 I had to configure the printer manually in Debian (potato or sarge?), but after installing (sarge?) on a different PC the scanner was recognised automatically and all functions including slide scanning worked at once. It remained that way on sarge and etch. Same when, from 2008 to spring this year I used the scanner on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron). Now, running Debian squeeze on an ASUS K70IJ-TY107L laptop, the scanner never worked with the drivers that come with sane. According to http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-EPSON2 and http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-epson2.5.html it should be working "Good" (comment column: "overseas version of the GT-8200UF"). On http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-EPSON2 these printers are described as: Model Interface USB id Status Comment GT-8200U USB 0x04b8/0x0110 Complete GT-8200UF USB 0x04b8/0x0110 Good Perfection 1650 USB 0x04b8/0x0110 Complete overseas version of the GT-8200U Perfection 1650 PHOTO USB 0x04b8/0x0110 Good overseas version of the GT-8200UF Previously on Ubuntu it used to offer the GT-8200 and Perfection 1650 so I could select 1650 manually which worked fine; before that on Debian, it just opened the xsane window for the 1650 correctly). Now, what happens is that sane (starting xsane from inside GIMP usually) recognises the scanner as a "Epson GT-8200 Flatbed Scanner [epson2:libusb:007:003]". When clicking for a preview scan, the scanner moved the sledge with the LEDs to start position and then along the page. Right after that an error message pops up in xsane saying the scan was aborted due to an error. When restarting xsane after that, the scanner is not found any more and it has to be disconnected, switched off and on again, reconnected, to be recognised the next time xsane starts. When running xsane from a terminal I get: andr...@machine:~$ xsane Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkOptionMenu::indicator-size' of type `GtkRequisition' from rc file value "0" of type `glong' Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkOptionMenu::indicator-spacing' of type `GtkBorder' from rc file value "0" of type `glong' [epson2] e2_ext_read: cancel request received As a (problematic!) workaround I installed iscan, the package offered by Epson to use this scanner; but it does not work as well as the generic sane solution used to, also it conflicts with initramfs-tools and I have to uninstall the package every time initramfs-tools is triggered to rebuild the initramfs. This also poses a risc because the update-manager will not notify you beforehand that initramfs needs to be triggered, and today, it happened that the initramfs-tools trigger was activated, but failed. This was not noted in the update-manager except that it said something went wrong, but not what did. If I hadn't looked into this I might not have been able to boot the machine again after the next shutdown. So I would rather use sane without the iscan package as I used to. If there is anything I can try to find out more about this problem or anything to fix it I would like to know. Best regards Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages sane depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgimp2.0 2.6.10-1 Libraries for the GNU Image Manipu ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsane 1.0.21-4 API library for scanners sane recommends no packages. Versions of packages sane suggests: ii gimp 2.6.10-1 The GNU Image Manipulation Program -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
