On 05/05/2017 04:27 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
170504 Philip Webb wrote:
I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo,
having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint.
I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives,
& listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg.
They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/
with names beginning with 'v550'.
It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan',
a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends
( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it),
plus some further data files + a lot of dox.
I've tried 3 methods without success :
(1) install Iscan via Portage & copy the other files in the .deb ;
(2) copy all the files in the .deb (apart from dox) (list checked) ;
(3) try to run the install.sh script.
None of them succeeds in getting the scanner recognised.
There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 :
I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600
& try to install Iscan + data + that plugin.
Any suggestions are very welcome.
I have an Epson 4490 which is supported by epkowa plugin
iscan-plugin-gt-x750. I found that ebuild on an overlay long ago. That
ebuild looks much like the ones currently in the tree for newer models.
In each of the ebuilds I looked at, there is an "iscan-registry" command
executed subsequent to installing all the files which registers the
plugin. Perhaps this is what is missing. The registration command
includes a USB identifier which will differ with scanner model.
