Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62293
Device couldn't be opened for scanning
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
Description of Problem: scanner was found by the scsi driver sane-find-scanner finds also the scanner neither xscanimage nor xsane can open the device to scan in the previous version of skipjack scanning worked pretty well Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sane-backends-1.0.7-6
Previous versions? Do you mean in 7.2, or just before applying skipjack updates?
It worked pretty well until 7.2 and with the 2.4.9-versions of Skipjack. From the 2.4.18-based versions on scanning don't work. Unfortunately with the change to the 2.4.18 kernels also the sane-versions changed, but with a try with 2.4.9-31 I had the same problem :-(
2.4.9-version of skipjack?? Please confirm the versions of both the kernel and sane-backends when it last worked. Also, are you trying this as root or as a non-root user? What model of scanner is this? Do you have a symlink /dev/scanner? (If not you'll need to make one.)
Sorry I was not precise enough - I meant the 2.4.9-x kernel-based Skipjack versions. The symlink to the right device exists Last time it worked with the following versions: kernel: 2.4.9-31 sane-backends: 1.0.7-4 or previous (here I'm not sure) The scanner is a Mustek 12000SP (SCSI) and it worked from 7.0-7.2 without any problems The SCSI-controller is an Adaptec 2940 UW. It neither works as root nor as a user.
Can you try backing off to a kernel/sane-backends combination that you can test works, so that we can find out if it's a kernel problem or a SANE one? Thanks. (You can use the --oldpackage rpm flag to 'upgrade' to older versions.)
I've tested a lot the last week wtiht the following results: - when I use the sane-backends-1.0.5-4 or sane-backends-1.0.5-4.1 it works pretty well with all kernel versions from 2.4.9-31 till 2.4.18-0.21 - when I switch to a version of sane >= 1.0.7-4, xsane can't detect the device Hope that helps. Unfortunately I'm on holiday from tomorrow on.
Please show me the output of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'.
Et voil` ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: SCANNER Model: Rev: 2.02 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 727A Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
I'm pretty sure that this is fixed in 1.0.8. You might be able to work around it by changing 'scsi SCANNER' in /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf to 'scsi * * Scanner'.
Sorry - I tried the recommended changements in /etc/sane.d/mustek.conf, but the scanner is still not recognized by xsane. On another machine with a completely different configuration (only the Adaptec 2940 UW is the same type) I received the same result wit a microtek scanner. Using the old 7.2 packages resolved the problem.
Are you able to try rebuilding 1.0.8 from source? There is a .src.rpm in rawhide (ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/)..
Hi Tim, no problem - already compiled, installed and it works on both machines pretty fine now. Thank you very much - can we in Germany expect a german version soon? What about ocr support? Regards, Joachim