Scanner problems xsane

[NoOp]

On 07/22/2008 07:47 AM, gordonsmall User wrote:
> I am new to the Ubuntu world, and am gradually working my way thru the
> various applications. I have run into a problem using my scanner. The
> computer is a AMD 64 bit system (3800) with 1 gig of RAM and plenty of
> storage.
> 
> When I turn on the scanner, a small dialog box opens up with the heading
> xsane 0.995 - Identifies scanner. In a moment or two, I am presented
> with a choice of two devices, one of them being my Epson 2450 scanner. I
> select that scanner. After a minute or two I get the following message:
> 
> Failure to obtain value of option monitor button: error during drive
> I/O.
> 
> Just for the heck of it, I continue on, and the application opens up
> with the acquire button active. I scan a document, but it does not look
> quite right, and when I click on the enable color preference, I get a
> message saying : error during CMS conversion. Could not open scanner ICM
> profile. About this time I have to force the application to quit. BTW,
> it will scan a b&w document, but I can't do much with it once it is
> scanned.
> 
> I have found a couple of things to try in the forums and Ubuntu pages.
> One was to add myself to the scanner group, which I did.  The other was
> to use the Synaptic manager to add the libsane - extras file which I had
> already done.  None of these have changed the outcome.
> 
> BTW, I am presented with two choices when Xsane identifies the scanner -
> the other being Epson -GT-9700.  If I select that (tho it is not my
> scanner), everything opens much more quickly, but it still comes to the
> same conclusion - could not open ICM profile.


According to SANE, the scanner is supported:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON

Have a look at the XSANE documentation to see if perhaps you need to
modify the settings:
http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-doc.html
  http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-color-management-doc.html
   http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-setup-color-management-doc.html