Re: udev/kernel2.6 vs. scanner?
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:21:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> i had my epson PhotoPerfection2450 working perfectly under kernel
> 2.4.21 (on a sid/powerpc system). I upgraded to 2.6.10 --
> halleluljah, by the way, I love udev -- and now everythign works
> except my scanner, which is no longer found by scanimage -L
>
The handling of USB scanners has changed with 2.6. Have a look at
/usr/share/doc/libsane/README.Debian.gz for details.
> 2. getting sane to identify scanner:
> sane-find-scanner finds nothing. sudo sane-find-scanner, however,
> gives this output (in a bunch of comments:
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0112 [EPSON
> Scanner]) at libusb:004:009
>
Looks like you need to add yourself to the scanner group.
> ok, so it exists... (the scsi device is however not found)
>
> 3. trying to scan:
> scanimage -L gives nothing. same with sudo. opening xsane or trying
> to us gimp also don't work. so what's going on?? looks to me like
> I've done everything right, but maybe I'm wrong!
Oddly, scanimage -L doesn't always find my scanner, but scanimage --help
brings up scanner-specific info pretty reliably. Go figure.
hth
dt
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