Re: usb scanner, kernel 2.6.3

[Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com>]

Philippe Marzouk wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>  
>
> > Where is the option for usb scanner when compiling your kernel? It
> > seems that it was forgotten. Yesterday I found out that to use the
> > scanner I had to boot with the 2.4.22 image, now I am trying to
> > recompile the image 2.6.3 to add scanner support but I can find only
> > for microtek, and no generic as it used to be. I am suspending the
> > compiling until I find out more about it.
> >
> >    
>
> The kernel changelog mentions it, it is now deprecated and removed from
> the kernel you have to swith to using libusb.
>
> For my Epson scanner I had simply to put 
>
> usb 
>
> on the epson.conf file
>
> Philippe
>
>  
For my epson it was not as simple.
Sane is now supported by libusb and not kernel.
Run sane-find-scanner. You get something like this:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0104 
[Perfection1200]) at libusb:001:003
 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be 
supported by
 # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

Then I put this in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf:
usb libusb:001:003

Scanner OK.
Kenneth.