peraalr...@t-online.de (Per Aalrust) writes on the Sane Mailinglist: > Henning you were right! I had the Kowa software installed for test > and the sane backend was replaced.
Speaking as the current maintainer of EPSON Kowa's "Image Scan! for Linux" (a.k.a. iscan), I know that our package silently clobbers the sane backend and that this is bad. I intend to fix this in a future release by renaming it. # I found out when I tried to install a .deb on my own system: dpkg # just would not let me clobber it without some --force. > > Are you sure you are using the epson backend from SANE 1.0.9 and not > > the Epson software (KOWA)? > > Right this was my problem! I did some experiments with the Epson > Kowa software and therefore the sane backend was replaced. HTH, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
