I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 Photo.
Neither work with Debian Linux. Both are known to work flawlessly with Windows XP Professional. I hate to reboot to Windows XP Professional and do so only as a last resort. At present I have no choice when I need to scan a document. I have described the problems with V100 at the start of this string. They may be due to a fault in the Epson plugin for iscan and I have posted a message on the Epson bulletin board asking for help. The problem with the 2400 is certainly a Linux or Sane/Xsane problem. This scanner used to work perfectly with Debian Linux. Six months ago something changed !!! What changed? Suddenly the scanner would lock up after two or three scans. At the time I posted messages to the Debian list and to the sane backend maintainer but there was no solution to the problem. Today, having upgraded to Debian Lenny and to linux-image-2.6.21-2-686, I thought to test the 2400 again. The problem is worse than ever. First scanimage -L hung. Then sane-find-scanner found the scanner and after that scanimage >/tmp/image.ppm produces a fuzzy gray-scale image of a color photograph. Xsane never moved the scanner light and produced a line image of nothing. The Epson Perfection 2400 is listed in the Sane-Project list as Complete. With an up-to-date Lenny distribution and a stock linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 kernel my scanner should work "right out of the box". It is know to have worked with earlier Debian distributions and it is known to work right now with Windows XP. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
