Oliver Schwartz writes: > Hi, >> Does all this mean that I need to load some firmware onto the >> scanner before I can use it, or should it work out-of-the-box with >> the snapscan backend?
> Yes and no. The backend will download the firmware to the scanner > automatically (as does the windows driver). See > http://snapscan.sourceforge.net for more information. > The firmware is only loaded into the internal RAM of the scanner. Once > you switch off the scanner it is restored to it's original state. I see. It looks like I had to install the driver under Windows, then. Did a test scan in Windows and it worked. Then rebooted to Linux, and scanimage -L found device `snapscan:libusb:001:003' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner1 flatbed scanner and scanimage ran just fine, both the RPM version and the CVS version from 20050815. I found the driver in c:/WINDOWS/system32/esfw52.bin, copied it to /etc/sane.d and modified the firmware entry in snapscan.conf, and now it works even after rebooting both the scanner and the computer. Thank you Olaf and Oliver for the help, Bjorn.
