Comment 6 for bug 341874

hi Tomas,

I solved all my problems with the Epson 4990 by following Maxo's
instructions as quoted below

Instead of "gksudo gedit" I had to type "sudo gedit"

cheers

Rik

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Scanning Problems in Ubuntu Karmic
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I went to scan in some pictures today with my new Karmic install and ran
into problems. When I went to scan I would get "Failed to start scanner:
Invalid argument" Some Googling revealed that many people are experiencing
broken scanning after upgrading to Karmic with various printers. A little
more searching revealed the solution. I think that there is probably an
even better solution, but this is how I got scanning to work.
First I installed libsane-extras:
sudo aptitude install libsane-extras
Next I edited saned.conf to enable the epson driver.
gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sane.d/dll.conf
In this file I removed the # at the line that read #epson
To get the parameters for me scanner I ran:

$ sane-find-scanner

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0839) at libusb:001:003
found USB scanner (vendor=0x0bc7 [X10 Wireless Technology Inc],
product=0x0004 [USB Receiver]) at libusb:007:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported
by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
  # necessary.

Here the line that read "found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0839)
at libusb:001:003" was the key. These parameters needed to go in the epson
drivers file.
gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sane.d/epson.conf
I replaced the line that read "usb" to read "usb 0x4b8 0x0839" Finally I
just needed to restart the sane daemon.
sudo /etc/init.d/saned restart
After this scanning finally worked.
Posted by Maxo at 3:10
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Tomas Pospisek <email address hidden>wrote:

> ** Changed in: xsane (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> --
> xsane: WARNING: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is
> deprecated.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341874
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