Agfa Snapscan e20 scanner fails to open in BionicPup

[mgs1234]

Using Bionic Pup 64 8 0
xsane correctly identifies an old Agfa Snapscan e20 flatbed scanner but then fails to connect to it with the following error -
snapscan:libusb:005:002:error during device I/O

I have had this scanner working on an older Puppy version on a now scapped HP2133 notebook which required firmware snapscan e20.bin but trying this just gives the same error message as above.

Any advice welcome.

[jp734]

Curious how you are going to solve this. I'm about to do a similar setup since I gave my brother printer/scanner to my daughter. I still use scanner from time to time and I need to look for my flatbed scanner. I have an old firmware file backed up and thinking about searching for a newer version. Are you using an old version or newer firmware?

[mgs1234]

As far as I know the snapscane20.bin is the correct firmware.

See -

https://snapscan.sourceforge.net/

xsane clearly recognises the scanner and the scanner motor and light activates as connection is attempted.

[jp734]

Finally able to give some time setting up my scanner and very happy to say, after sitting for so many years in the attic, my flatbed scanner still works.

All I had to do was edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and copy my backed up firmware to the folder specified below. Worked the first try.

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# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u96v121.bin

When I ran "xsane image scanner", a window opened to let me choose what type of scanner I'm using (USB, Parallel or SCSI) - see Screenshot(22).jpg. I clicked USB then another window open letting me chose my scanner which in this case is the Acer - FlatbedScanner13 (see Screenshot(23).jpg)

I'm trying it on EasyOS but I'm sure it will work on other Puppy Linux

Hope you were able to get yours going.