Epson Perfection 1260 does not work in 11.2

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In OpenSuse 10.3 I was able to use my Epson scanner using the plustek-driver.

After upgrade to 11.2 I can not use it anymore.

sane-find-scanner recognized the scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011d [EPSON Scanner], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:006:002

scanimage -L does not see it

Increasing SANE_PLUSTEK_DEBUG gives

[plustek] next device is a USB device (autodetection)
[plustek] next device is an USB device
[plustek] ><
[plustek] >#<
[plustek] ># options for the previous USB entry<
[plustek] >#<
[plustek] ># switch lamp off after xxx secs, 0 disables the
… a lot more …
[plustek] gray Gamma : 1.00
[plustek] ---------------------
[plustek] drvopen()
[plustek] usbDev_open(/dev/usbscanner,)
[plustek] open failed: -1
[plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbfd7a618, 0)

Yast2 sees my scanner (libusb:006:002)
I seem to be able to add it. I can select the correct scanner (plustek-driver) but it stays Not Configured

I installed iscan-proprietary-drivers-2.10.0.1-28.1.1.i586

BTW: 10.3 was a 64-bits installation, now I use the 32-bit version

2

Strange, because I have the same scanner model and with openSUSE 11.2 32bit it works out of the box, as always.

3

The same scanner also works on my wife’s openSUSE-11.2 (32-bit). It works fine.

There was some “iscan” software that had to be installed … I can’t remember the exact packages. She has per PC running XP right now so I can’t check. Possible more than just iscan-proprietary-drivers (there is also iscan-firmware, and iscan-free … I don’t know which ones until she lets me at her PC. She has to work tomorrow (Christmas) morning, so maybe I can look then).

4

sane-find-scanner recognized the scanner

scanimage -L does not see it

I believe this is a permissions issue; I had this with all previous versions of Suse;

Try: in a terminal

lsusb

If the scanner is for example attached to

Bus 004 Device 002

what worked on previous editions was to become root

chmod a+rw /dev/bus/usb/004/002

where you copy the bus and device number into the command line …

if you can now scan, the device is owned by root; I tried to change ownership but never succeeded as a permanent fix

I resorted to using the above; (and/or another distro whilst using that)

see also here

http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/426264-suse-11-2-scanner-needs-root-priviliges.html

5

It can not be a privilege issue as I tried everything as root

6

Some bad news … my wife gave away our Epson Perfection 1260 scanner on Christmas Eve to a friend. The scanner works great, but our new HP Photosmart Premium C309a multifunction printer has a higher quality scanner on our home LAN and my wife could not see the point in having two scanners.

So my apologies, but I can not provide support based on my wife having the same scanner as that is no longer the case.

But I did log on to my wife’s PC and I noted she had the follow rpms installed to work with that Epson scanner:

  • iscan-firmware
  • yast2-scanner
  • iscan-proprietary-drivers
  • sane-backends-autoconfig
  • xsane
  • sane-backends
  • libksane0

she has no other “iscan” apps installed. Note her PC is a 32-bit and hence is running a 32-bit openSUSE-11.2.

Apologies, but that is the best that I can do on this.

Good Luck !

7

I installed the same RPM’s.
Does not work

8

Did you restart after any updates to ensure the appropriate modules were loaded? Also possibly cycle the power on your scanner in case its ‘hung’. Sometimes for a scanner it is necessary to add the user to group “lp” all I did not find that necessary for my wife’s scanner.

… anyway, some one else will need to chime in here as I no longer have access to this make scanner, which, by the way, worked perfectly on my wife’s 32-bit openSUSE-11.2 with KDE-4.3.4.

9

Are you certain thats the correct driver? Often in Linux if you install multiple drivers for a single device, that will break any access one might want to the device.

10

In addition to the iscan proprietary drivers package, you also need the iscan package available here:

Scanner | AVASYS CORPORATION

This package seems to have been omitted from the non-oss repository, yet is not a valid bug:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556097