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PaBre

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 7

Sane - worked well, then stopped, downgrade didn't help

Hi
I'm new to Archlinux. What's more, I'm new to Linux at all. But 2 months ago I have migrated from windows and I succeded.
I had some major and minor problems, but my scanner worked very well. Then, suddenly it stop working. It was, if I remeber OK, more than 2 weeks ago.
I searched polish Arch community forum, this forum, google and I've found quite a lot information. I thought, my problem can be sane version higher than 1.0.18-2
So - I downgraded my newer sane to 1.0.18-2 and... my scanner is still not working Then I check twice my cofnigs, and checked again and again and I think, I cannot handle it alone.

My configs:

Scanner: Plustek OpticPro 9636T connected via LPT
sane: 1.0.18-2 (now, newer versions before)
/dev/parport0 - owner root:scanner
/var/lock/sane - owner root:scanner

my user is in scanner group

uncommented in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf :
net
plustek
plustek_pp
#(only the plustek_pp refers to my hardware)

config in /etc/sane.d/plustek_pp.conf :
[direct]
device parport0
#(and "standard" config about lamp poweroff etc)

and in /etc/rc.conf :
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @kdm network @sshd !netfs @crond !dbus !hal @alsa @hplip @cups lircd @mldonkey sane)

Then I tried:
scanimage -T

and the result (form user and root):

scanimage: no SANE devices found

I checked my scanner on windows and it is still working perfectly.

Can anybody help me?

bt

Member

Registered: 2007-04-11

Posts: 198

Re: Sane - worked well, then stopped, downgrade didn't help

I had a similar problem. I had to go back to dll.conf and comment out everything except those entries specifically targeted at my scanner (Epson Perfection 1640). I wound up with one uncommented entry: epson.
I then entered the epson.conf file and added the correct address (0x4b8 0x010a for my scanner). I also commented all entries that did not apply (SCSI, etc), leaving only the 'usb' entry as active.
As well you may have to edit ~/.bashrc and add: export SANE_DEFAULT_DEVICE="xxx" ...xxx being the actual address of you scanner -- in my case it was: "epson:libusb:001:003"

My problem was that sane worked with one release but not with updated releases.
YMMV

jfca283

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 177

Re: Sane - worked well, then stopped, downgrade didn't help

you need to compile a module
this guy did it for ubuntu/debian
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigos/ve … 5&pagina=1
i tried, but the makemodule file throws me some error, i thinks because direction of folders or something related

jcci

Member

From: China / Germany

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 185

Re: Sane - worked well, then stopped, downgrade didn't help

@bt
Thanks, your solution saved my scanner!