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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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