Re: [Sheflug] Document scanners for Gentoo?

[John Cooper <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:00 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a decent document scanner that will just work with 
> Gentoo Linux? I have a middle-aged Epson Perfection 640U, which I cannot 
> get working with Gentoo; I'm considering chucking it out.
> 

Hi this may not be of much help but I have an Epson Perfection 1240U USB
and it has worked fine under Debian for ages. I brought it because the
Sane sight said it was okay[1].

I have just got a single line "usb" in my /etc/sane/epson.conf and then
xsane sees it no problem. I would imagine the 640 should be about the
same. Is it coming up on the USB bus okay? running lsusb should tell you
it has found it. I think that hotplug should create a
device /dev/scanner0 or some such, might want to check in the logs.
Having said that I think that sane uses libusb so should require no unix
devices!


john
[1]http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON


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