Hi, I'm new to the list. I just bought an Epson 3490 as it looked possible to make it work with linux and it got good reviews.
It's working now, but with 3 hours of fighting... Help for other people trying this in the future: 0. A good site that helped me is: http://www.michaelminn.com/index.php?linux/peripherals.html 1. Someone should change the sane compatibility list to show that it does NOT work as of sane-backends-1.0.16. It should be noted you need CVS or .17 once it's released. 2. It's quite a bit of work for a FC3 user: must rpm -e sane-backends, sane-frontends, xsane and xsane-gimp and then compile/install yourself the first 3 packages from CVS source. 3. Must manually move the 2 hotplug files from sane-be source to /etc/hotplug trees. 4. Must get the firmware file from a Windows install of the scanner and put it somewhere in linux and change snapscan.conf to point to it. File is esfw52.bin in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 5. *** THE BIG PAIN *** I'm not sure if anyone knows why this happened: It might be FC3 specific. The problem was something in the system (I still don't know what) makes a symlink from /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane.so.1 -> libsane-v4l.so.1.0.16. That's totally bogus. If I rm the symlink it just instantly pops back into existence!! Weird! This wouldn't have been a problem, but my /etc/ld.so.conf had /usr/local/lib/sane listed BEFORE /usr/local/lib and so this bogus libsane.so was being used instead of the real one in /usr/local/lib! Reversing the order in ld.so.conf solved the problem. Scanner works great now. If anyone knows WTF is up with #5, let me know. The scanner scans quick and looks good. I did a test at 600 dpi and it looks fine. Someone else reported it looked pixelated? Please email me if this appears to still occur as I want to make sure my scans are perfect. I haven't tried the TPU yet as I don't really need that feature. I'm willing to run whatever tests the devs may want and report back if that would help. Thanks to all the coders for their fine work.
