hi Tomas, I solved all my problems with the Epson 4990 by following Maxo's instructions as quoted below
Instead of "gksudo gedit" I had to type "sudo gedit" cheers Rik Sunday, November 15, 2009 Scanning Problems in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10<http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2009/11/scanning-problems-in-ubuntu-karmic-910.html> I went to scan in some pictures today with my new Karmic install and ran into problems. When I went to scan I would get "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument" Some Googling revealed that many people are experiencing broken scanning after upgrading to Karmic with various printers. A little more searching revealed the solution. I think that there is probably an even better solution, but this is how I got scanning to work. First I installed libsane-extras: sudo aptitude install libsane-extras Next I edited saned.conf to enable the epson driver. gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sane.d/dll.conf In this file I removed the # at the line that read #epson To get the parameters for me scanner I ran: $ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0839) at libusb:001:003 found USB scanner (vendor=0x0bc7 [X10 Wireless Technology Inc], product=0x0004 [USB Receiver]) at libusb:007:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. Here the line that read "found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0839) at libusb:001:003" was the key. These parameters needed to go in the epson drivers file. gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/sane.d/epson.conf I replaced the line that read "usb" to read "usb 0x4b8 0x0839" Finally I just needed to restart the sane daemon. sudo /etc/init.d/saned restart After this scanning finally worked. Posted by Maxo at 3:10 PM<http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2009/11/scanning-problems-in-ubuntu-karmic-910.html> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=2160921736769720124&postID=5950210381081136885> Labels: Linux <http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/search/label/Linux>, technology <http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/search/label/technology>, ubuntu <http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/search/label/ubuntu> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Tomas Pospisek <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch>wrote: > ** Changed in: xsane (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Confirmed > > -- > xsane: WARNING: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is > deprecated. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341874 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- xsane: WARNING: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341874 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
