c...@isbd.net writes: > I'm trying to get an Epson V700 scanner working on Slackware 11. > > I am running 2.6.18.1 kernel compiled myself which I need to support > the JMicron IDE on my motherboard, I also have a couple of custom > modules. > > Slackware 11 comes with Sane version 1.0.18, "scanimage -V" reports:- > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.18; backend version 1.0.205 > > > Running "sane-find-scanner" finds the scanner OK:- > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON > Scanner]) at libusb:7:2 > > However "scanimage -L" resolutely refuses to see any scanners at all. > > I have added the following line to /etc/scan.d/epson.conf:- > usb 0x4b8 0x12c > and I've commented out everything else in there. Is this actually > necessary?
If you use sane-backends-1.0.18, then yes. If you use the latest CVS, then no. > Strangely enough xscan does think I've got a scanner, it reports > correctly that I have an HP 7310 All-in-one and, incorrectly, that I > have an Epson GT900 (or something like that). The Perfection V700 "thinks" it's a GT-X900. # It's marketed as a GT-X900 in Japan. > I'm pretty sure I have permissions set up OK, all of the above have > been run as an ordinary user rather than root but I have also tried as > root and results are the same. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
