Scanner problem with Epson Perfection 2450 on 11.1
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From: Tom on 25 Jul 2010 09:31 Hi, I just got a used Epson Perfection 2450 scanner and am trying to use it on SUSE 11.1, but there seems to be no way to make it work. I have tried several lines of attack: - Kooka: Initially, I could get as far as having a preview of the scanned image, but then it won't make the final scan. The only thing that happens when I click the Scan button to produce the final scan is that a small window pops up that presumably should show the progress, although it is in fact blank. This window is there for ~1 min and then disappears; nothing else happens. To make it worse, on the account where I tried it first, the subwindows of the Kooka window have somehow been rearranged, and now most of them, including the one with the Preview and Scan buttons, are blank, and there seems to be no way to reset it to the original status. - Skanlite: When calling it, I get this stupid bouncing icon for some time, then it disappears so it looks like the process had crashed. Nonetheless, the Skanlite window pops up several minutes later without further action or visible activity. When I then try to make a preview scan, the app hangs and has to be killed. - Iscan: Doesn't find the scanner at all (some I/O error if I recall correctly), although clearly the hardware is there and is also configured. Is there any way to make this work? Is there any Linux scanning application that actually functions? SUSE 11.1 has been a big disappointment in various respects already compared with earlier releases, but few things have pissed me off as much as this. Any help with this will be much appreciated, Tom
From: Inge Svensson on 25 Jul 2010 10:39 Tom skrev 2010-07-25 15:31: > Hi, > I just got a used Epson Perfection 2450 scanner and am trying to use > it on SUSE 11.1, but there seems to be no way to make it work. I have > tried several lines of attack: > - Kooka: Initially, I could get as far as having a preview of the > scanned image, but then it won't make the final scan. The only thing > that happens when I click the Scan button to produce the final scan is > that a small window pops up that presumably should show the progress, > although it is in fact blank. This window is there for ~1 min and then > disappears; nothing else happens. To make it worse, on the account > where I tried it first, the subwindows of the Kooka window have > somehow been rearranged, and now most of them, including the one with > the Preview and Scan buttons, are blank, and there seems to be no way > to reset it to the original status. > - Skanlite: When calling it, I get this stupid bouncing icon for some > time, then it disappears so it looks like the process had crashed. > Nonetheless, the Skanlite window pops up several minutes later without > further action or visible activity. When I then try to make a preview > scan, the app hangs and has to be killed. > - Iscan: Doesn't find the scanner at all (some I/O error if I recall > correctly), although clearly the hardware is there and is also > configured. > Is there any way to make this work? Is there any Linux scanning > application that actually functions? SUSE 11.1 has been a big > disappointment in various respects already compared with earlier > releases, but few things have pissed me off as much as this. > Any help with this will be much appreciated, > Tom I've had better success with the software and drivers at http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do Inge Svensson
From: Tom on 25 Jul 2010 11:15 On Jul 25, 4:36 pm, Inge Svensson <ingesvens...(a)orion.vokby.se> wrote: > > - Iscan: Doesn't find the scanner at all (some I/O error if I recall > > correctly), although clearly the hardware is there and is also > > configured. > I've never had any success with openSUSE drivers for my Epson scanner, > but got it working with the software and drivers fromhttp://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do I had actually tried both installing iscan-free (which does not provide a frontend, though) and the proprietary iscan stuff, and of the latter I tried both the version that came with openSUSE and the somewhat newer releases available on that website you cite. The result was always pretty much the same: it didn't work, either it died silently after trying to start up or it gave this error message that no scanner was found without offering any further means to configure or search the scanner. Tom
From: Inge Svensson on 25 Jul 2010 12:59 2010-07-25 17:15, Tom skrev: > On Jul 25, 4:36 pm, Inge Svensson <ingesvens...(a)orion.vokby.se> wrote: >>> - Iscan: Doesn't find the scanner at all (some I/O error if I recall >>> correctly), although clearly the hardware is there and is also >>> configured. >> I've never had any success with openSUSE drivers for my Epson scanner, >> but got it working with the software and drivers fromhttp://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do > I had actually tried both installing iscan-free (which does not > provide a frontend, though) and the proprietary iscan stuff, and of > the latter I tried both the version that came with openSUSE and the > somewhat newer releases available on that website you cite. The result > was always pretty much the same: it didn't work, either it died > silently after trying to start up or it gave this error message that > no scanner was found without offering any further means to configure > or search the scanner. > Tom Did you give the command iscan from the terminal? Inge Svensson
From: Tom on 25 Jul 2010 17:05
On Jul 25, 6:59 pm, Inge Svensson <ingesvens...(a)orion.vokby.se> wrote: > 2010-07-25 17:15, Tom skrev:> On Jul 25, 4:36 pm, Inge Svensson <ingesvens...(a)orion.vokby.se> wrote: > >>> - Iscan: Doesn't find the scanner at all (some I/O error if I recall > >>> correctly), although clearly the hardware is there and is also > >>> configured. > Did you give the command iscan from the terminal? The symptoms are the same, no matter whether I call it from the prompt or from the desktop menu: "Could not send command to scanner: Check the scanner's status". There is no further information in that message window, nor is there a menu that would permit me to read a logfile or whatever, so this is pretty useless. Then again, it makes sense that a command cannot be sent to scanner, because the default way of installing the hardware is to configure it with epkowa, which is in iscan-free; as iscan-free does not have the iscan frontend command, you have to install the proprietary iscan packages, which are mutually exclusive with iscan-free, so deinstallation of that deletes epkowa, I guess. Ingeniously, the test performed when the hardware is thus set up does not result in any error. As an alternative, I have also tried to set up the hardware with the epson driver package, which is part of sane-backends (always installed), but that results in the same error message, *and* the scanner is not identified correctly in the first place, but as GT-9700, although the selection list explicitly lists the Perfection 2450 and the sane-epkowa manpage suggests somehow that this is actually the name of the Perf 2450 in Japan. When I tried the same thing with the epson2 driver package, I actually did get a proper window of iscan and thought I could access the scanner now. However, when pressing the Preview button, I got again the aforementioned error. Furthermore, the hardware setup had reset itself in such a way that epson2 was listed as "No scanner recognized by this driver", and an additional entry showed the actual scanner as Not Configured. Yuck. |