Andrew <andrew2006 at flight.us> writes: > The Epson 4490 is not listed on > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON
Check http://sane.alioth.debian.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA instead. It is supported, but on i386 machines only as it requires a non-free plugin. > Surfing around i see people have asked about support, there are > cases where it does NOT work with out-of-the-box distribs/kooka, but > i am not seeing definitive answers of whether it does or doesn't Last time I looked at kooka was during a debugging session trying to find out why it insisted on blowing up regardless of what you did. Hope things have changed for the better since then. > Does anyone here know if this model is supported? Yes, provided you use it on an i386 machine and don't mind using non-free software. Packages are available at: http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html You most likely want the packages for gcc-3.4 or later. If you need Debian packages, use: alien --scripts --keep-version <rpm-package> for the smoothest ride. If you are using a distribution that's not officially supported by my employer you may need to straighten out a kink or two, but in general our iscan packages work quite well across multiple distributions. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/
