This whole business is quite annoying. Without external help vom Yuri and Olaf I would make no progress at all ... but even so the problem still exists.
1. Entering in page http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/ perfection v 330 photo and linux gives no results. Only 'perfection v330 photo' works. 2. In the FAQ http://download.ebz.epson.net/faq/linux/faq_ls_00002.html one is directed to download the data package, the RPM package, and ex)iscan-2.29.1-1.usb0.1.ltdl7.rpm. 3. The last file I could not find, just the iscan plugin package from page http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModuleFromResult. This download resulted in esci-interpreter-perfection-v330-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm which is quite different from the file asked for in 2. Also the name in search results does not suggest that this is the esci-interpreter. Is this the correct file? If not: what is the exact name of the correct file, where do I get it from? 4. I installed the file esci*.rpm - see 3. 5. This resulted in the scanner still being not configured according to yast2, configuration of the scanner... so the scanner is seen, but cannot be used. 6. Working on this single item in the scanner's list gave a long list 'choosing scanner model and driver'. My scanner is listed with the following driver: Third-Party Image Scan driver software from Epson/Avasys required. Driver epkowa should give good functionality. (USB-ID 0x04b8:0x0142) [requires DFSG non-free esci-interpreter-perfection-v330] 7. Continue resulted in the message Driver can cause problems. The epkowa driver in 64-Bit x86_64 can give trouble. 8. I continued even so. Result: the scanner moved for a short while, but then the list 'configuration of the scanner' appeared and therein epkowa Epson ... an epkowa:interpreter not configured Epson Perfection ... 9. When giving OK to 8. and starting xsane to my amazement it worked. I had stumbled over the words 'not configured'. So my question in 3. needs not be answered. By a good instruction manual and good naming - see the beginning of 3. - a lot of trouble for the user could be avoided. Thank you both for your help. Albrecht -- Albrecht Mehl |eBriefe an:mehlBEIfreundePUNKTtu-darmstadtPUNKTde Veilchenweg 7 |Tel. (06151) 37 39 92 D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany|sehenswert - ungef?hr 'Wir einsam im All' http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/index.html
