HOWTO: Epson Perfection 1670 Scanner (and other SnapScan scanners)

[changlinn]

I have the epson 2480
I found the bin file I needed on the driver disc and copied it to my webspace below http://www.morganstorey.com/stuff/Esfw41.bin
I have followed the instructions and get the below

# scanimage -L
device `snapscan:libusb:005:003' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner

I can now get xsane working, and scanimage -T seems to work, but it doesn't scan. Xsane just shows a slightly bluey blurred page as a preview and a finished product.

[changlinn]

anyone know how to fix the above? My wife's desperate to scan some pictures, has even suggested I reinstall windows.

[matthoffman]

Have you tried the other firmware file (ESFW30.BIN) posted above? Perhaps your firmware doesn't play nice...a known-working firmware is worth a shot.

I have an Epson 1670; I'll give it a shot in a minute.

[matthoffman]

Have you tried the other firmware file (ESFW30.BIN) posted above? Perhaps your firmware doesn't play nice...a known-working firmware is worth a shot.

I have an Epson 1670; I'll give it a shot in a minute.

Hmm...odd. I can't scan, either. With Kooka, preview works, but the full scan doesn't -- it just hangs. With scanimage on the command line, it warms up the scanner and then says,

scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O

The scanner light starts doing a funky red-green-blink dance, and scanning hangs. Hmmm... perhaps my scanner is a revision that isn't compatible with the posted firmware? But the preview scan worked...

I tried in 2 hubs, in case that was the issue; I may try plugging it directly into the motherboard to rule it out further.

[matthoffman]

well, for the record, the firmware for Epson scanners is packaged in the driver that you can download from Epson -- use unzip to open the .exe file, and then cabextract to open the ModUsd.cab file. You'll find the two .bin options inside.
Interestingly, the esfw30.bin file inside there is different than the one posted on this thread. But it doesn't solve my problem -- scanner detected, then "Error during device I/O".
Alas...

[Thingymebob]

Having the same problems as matthoffman with my 1670 perfection using esfw30.bin,
xsane opens, previews ok - dies on scan
Result of scanimage -Tv

[snapscan] Scanner warming up - waiting 9 seconds.
[snapscan] Scanner warming up - waiting 35 seconds.
scanimage: scanning image of size 2552x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample
scanimage: reading one scanline, 7656 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: reading one byte...          PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 2 bytes...     PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 4 bytes...     PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 8 bytes...     PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 16 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 32 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 64 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 128 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 256 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 512 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 1024 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 2048 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 4096 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 8192 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 8191 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 4095 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 2047 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 1023 bytes...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 511 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 255 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 127 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 63 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 31 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 15 bytes...    PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 7 bytes...     PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 3 bytes...     PASS

Last time I used this scanner was on Dapper, Just plugged it in and it worked - What Happened?

[Thingymebob]

I got an Image:

Scanner will only complete one pass, then requires restart / xsane restart
Don't do the preview scan just select the whole area and then scan........What a pain!

The result of scanimage -Tv after the first scanned image (scanimage -p > img1.ppm)

scanimage: open of device snapscan:libusb:003:003 failed: Error during device I/O

dmesg:

[  172.217525] usb 3-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[  172.288914] usb 3-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

[Thingymebob]

I've set sane to debug and attached is a diff of the successful and failed scan passes if anyone can do anything with them

[ttread]

I am experiencing the same problems with my Epson Perfection 1670. This appears to be a kernel bug in Feisty: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...nds/+bug/94226 I used this scanner for a long time on Edgy and it worked beautifully.

It does one scan ok and then just gives I/O error repeatedly, with red blinking light. I found that I could reset the scanner by disconnecting/reconnecting the power cable, but it's very difficult to use for productive work. I have tried both firmware files available with the same result.

[glennric]

This bug has been around since Feisty was released. It has to do with the experimental feature
"USB selective suspend/resume and wakeup (EXPERIMENTAL) (USB_SUSPEND)" that is enabled in the Feisty kernel. If you recompile the kernel with this option disabled then you will be able to scan normally again. Even better, if you compile the 2.6.21 vanilla kernel with this enabled things will work as they should. There was a bug in the 2.6.20 kernel that has been fixed.