[sane-devel] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: scanner Epson DX4250 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-28 Thread Giorgio F. Signorini
Alas, after the first successful scan, even iscan doesn't work anymore I am really confused ... From: Giorgio F. Signorini giorgio.signorini at unifi.it Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:28:22 +0200 It works! Well, the response of scanimage -L is somehow erratic -most of the time it

[sane-devel] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: scanner Epson DX4250 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-27 Thread Giorgio F. Signorini
Maybe I should point out here that the same scanner (with the same USB cable!) works well on my laptop: Ubuntu 10.10, with xsane: 0.997-2ubuntu3 libsane: 1.0.21-2ubuntu2 Problems arise only with my desktop: Ubuntu 11.10, with xsane: 0.998-3ubuntu1 libsane: 1.0.22-2ubuntu2 The

[sane-devel] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: scanner Epson DX4250 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-27 Thread Giorgio F. Signorini
From: Olaf Meeuwissen olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:35:42 +0900 FWIW, you may want to try the epkowa backend included with Image Scan! for Linux available here: http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX to see if you can reproduce it

[sane-devel] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: scanner Epson DX4250 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-26 Thread Giorgio F. Signorini
From: Richard Ryniker ryniker at alum.mit.edu Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:02:03 -0400 Now it is guess work why the device is temporarily unavailable when trying to reset it, but replies just fine to the status query to comes immediately after. Timing issue? Perhaps the two bytes

[sane-devel] R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: scanner Epson DX4250 not working in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-26 Thread Richard Ryniker
Would this explain why the backend works the first time it is called from within a shell, and then stops working until a new shell is opened (as I described earlier)? No... unless the first (successful) operation leaves some data behind (environment variable?) that causes the second (failed)