[sane-devel] Linux 2.5.62

Stian Jordet liste at jordet.nu
Mon Feb 24 21:22:25 GMT 2003


man, 2003-02-24 kl. 20:50 skrev Henning Meier-Geinitz:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > I have lately been using kernel 2.5.x on my computer. Because of several
> > reasons I like that better. But, I cannot seem to get the scanner to
> > work. It works fine with 2.4.x. It's a Epson Perfection 1260, and I have
> > tried both the Epson Kowa backend and the plustek backend (which both
> > works fine in 2.4.x). When using SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255 I get that it
> > can't open the device. But when loading the scanner module, it seems to
> > find my scanner. And, as I said, the exact same setup works with 2.4.x,
> > and my usb-printer works with 2.5.x. So my question is, are there any
> > known issues with scanning with 2.5.x kernels?
> 
> The kernel scanner driver in 2.5.* is usually more bleeding edge.
> Currently 2.5.62 has (almost) the same driver as 2.4.21-pre4. Both
> work for me, but 2.5.* gets little testing (from me). But I haven't
> gotten any bug reports either.
> 
> > [epson] sane_init, >usb /dev/usb/scanner0<
> > [epson] attach(usb /dev/usb/scanner0)
> > [epson] SANE Epson Backend v1.4.0ek - 2002-7-22
> > [epson] attach(usb /dev/usb/scanner0)
> > [epson] attach: opening usb /dev/usb/scanner0
> > [epson] sane_start: /dev/usb/scanner0 open (USB) failed: No such device
> > [epson] sane_get_devices()
> 
> you are trying to open /dev/usb/scanner0.
> 
> > [plustek] usbDev_open(/dev/usb/scanner0,)
> 
> Same here.
> 
> > >From my dmesg:
> > drivers/usb/image/scanner.c: USB scanner device (0x04b8/0x011d) now
> > attached to scanner1
> 
> But it seems to be connecte to /dev/usb/scanner1.
> 
> Fix the config files (plustek.conf/epson.conf).
> 
I have tried both. You have any idea why it want scanner1 in 2.5.x and
scanner0 in 2.4.x? I'm using 2.4.21-pre3, which is working very good.
But I can try pre4. Hmm. Thanks anyway. Since there is no known issues,
it's just my setup, I guess.

Regards,
Stian




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