Epson scanner won't scan under Ubuntu 11 upgrade

**tribbleva** · July 11th, 2011

I have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB 2.0 scanner that worked fine under Ubuntu 9 with xsane and simplescan. I had some network problems after upgrading to Ubuntu 11, so I completely wiped my laptop and installed Ubuntu 11 fresh a few days ago. This scanning problem is therefore on a nearly virgin Ubuntu 11 install.

Both SimpleScan and xsane can't get the scanner to scan. Upon starting a scan or a preview scan, the scanner starts to scan, but almost immediately stops and returns to its "home" position. xsane gives a message saying that "operation was cancelled," and simplescan does not give any error but just a white image.

There are no messages related to scanning in dmesg or /var/log/syslog.

I tried the gksudo xsane command, but in that mode xsane would not even find the scanner.

I removed all of the xsane packages and related lib packages with synaptic, but simplescan continued to fail.

I removed simplescan and re-installed xsane, but xscan continued to fail.

Please help!! It's depressing when things quit working after "upgrades."

Thanks,
tribble

**tribbleva** · July 13th, 2011

Ideas? Anyone?

**Tweak42** · July 28th, 2011

My 10.10 upgrade to 11.04 did the same to my Epson Perfection 1650 scanner. I followed a tip in this post and it started working again.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...2&postcount=10

**tribbleva** · July 30th, 2011

Tweak42! You are a godsend! I made that edit... and it worked! I had gotten so far as to verify that the problem existed with the latest version of SANE on another current, popular distribution, but hadn't found that tweak. Now I will no longer have to reboot with my Ubuntu 8.04 live CD to scan things. THANK YOU!!!