Greetings All! I would welcome anything in the way of useful advice/tips about the following.
I have a (rather old) Epson Perection 2400 scanner (USB). This has been working very well for years on an old desktop, using xsane. When xsane is started up on that machine there is an initial fairly lar egwindow which allows (if needed) configurations.
I now want to use this scanner with a more recent laptop which is running a 2011 version of Debian. It seems that xsane is correctly installed.
Now: With the scanner powered on, I plug its USB lead into the laptop. After a second or two, the scanner makes the usual "initialisation" noises (scanner arm shifting up & down). So something is OK, at least at the scanner end.
I then invoke xsane at the command line. Up comes a little window (not the big window like on the other machine) with a message "scanning for devices". Then the window says: "failed to open device 'v4l:/dev/video0" and the only option remaining is to close the window, at which point the instance of xsane closes. I have no idea why it should be looking for a *video* device!
I can find no work-round for this. It might be that the laptop had not detected the scanner (how can I tell?). There is no icon for it on the GNOME desktop (but that didn't happen either when I connected my USB printer; and that works perfectly well).
Any suggestions gratefully received!
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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On 02/11/13 21:25, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Greetings All! I would welcome anything in the way of useful advice/tips about the following.
I have a (rather old) Epson Perection 2400 scanner (USB). This has been working very well for years on an old desktop, using xsane. When xsane is started up on that machine there is an initial fairly lar egwindow which allows (if needed) configurations.
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Two approaches: 1) I think there's a set of pages somewhere on the XSane webpage that lists the supported scanners. Find your scanner, or a similar match. Look at the config instructions.
This may invovle extracting a .BIN file from the windows driver, copying it to your computer, and adjusting a config file. You may have already done this with the old PC, so you may be able to copy. PS - is this the link? http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS
2) Download ImageScan from Epson Look at this http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/faq_ls_00002.html
Go to this link http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
Type in the name of your scanner and search. If nothing comes up, type in a name of a similar scanner and then see what you get. You need at least 2 .deb files (assuming it's a .deb based system, ubuntu, debian etc) - iscan and iscan data (or something like that)
This may give you a clue what I'm on about. http://askubuntu.com/questions/190820/12-04-epson-scanner-will-not-install
Anyway, I know you want to use XSane, but once iscan is installed and working, you'll probably find that XSane is working again.
Option 3) Google how to get a Epson Perection 2400 scanner working under Linux. :-P
Hope that helps!
Steve
On 02/11/13 22:24, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 02/11/13 21:25, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Greetings All! I would welcome anything in the way of useful advice/tips about the following.
I have a (rather old) Epson Perection 2400 scanner (USB). This has been working very well for years on an old desktop, using xsane. When xsane is started up on that machine there is an initial fairly lar egwindow which allows (if needed) configurations.
[snip]
Two approaches:
{} Any joy?
Steve
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