After many hours of troubleshooting/googling, looking for some help:
I'm switching from Ubuntu to Debian Jessie, and am having problems scanning via Sane. Oddly, I had no trouble with scanning on Ubuntu/Xubuntu (14.04) with the same computer and same scanner/printer. Printing is fine on both OS's.. It's just scanning that won't work on Debian.
When I attempt a scan, I can hear the scanner moving, but then an error appears before the image shows up on the computer.
I have tried both XSane (version: 0.998) and Simple Scan (3.14.0).
Here are the errors:
XSane: Error during read: Error during device I/O.
Simple Scan: "Failed to scan Error communicating with scanner"
It makes no difference whether I run XSane/SimpleScan as "user" or "root"; The same error occurs in both cases.
I also tried using Sane directly from command line, and this is what I get:
#root@debianos:/home/me# sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x040a [Eastman Kodak Company], product=0x4066 [KODAK ESP Office 2170 Series]) at libusb:001:008
#root@debianos:/home/me# scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname HD WebCam virtual device
device `kodakaio:libusb:001:008' is a Kodak KODAK ESP Office 2170 Series flatbed scanner
#root@debianos:/home/me# scanimage -d kodakaio --format pnm > outfile.pnm
scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
On Debian Jessie I saw these files:
/etc/sane.d/kodak.conf
/etc/sane.d/kodakaio.conf
So to experiment, I tried replacing them with the ones from my working Ubuntu. But that didn't help. And "diff" showed almost no difference anyway.
Again, I have no trouble scanning using Ubuntu on the same computer/scanner combo, so I'm thinking it should be possible on Debian.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance