Re: [Sheflug] Document scanners for Gentoo?

[Peter Humphrey <prh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:51:02 A C Hurst 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.
> >
> > I've sought help on the Gentoo-AMD64 e-mail list, but although willing,
> > no-one there can offer much help.
>
> I presume you're using sane-backends, compiled with the 'usb' use flag?

Yes, that's right.

> Which front-end?

xsane, though I haven't got as far as using it yet.

> The 640 is on the supported devices page of www.sane-project.org

Yes, everything is in my favour - except one.

$ sane-find-scanner -q
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010c [Perfection640  ]) 
at libusb:002:002

$ scanimage -L

No scanners were identified.

> There's quite a bit of scanner stuff on the (very active)
> forums.gentoo.org

I'd better have a look - thanks.

John,
I think the above answers your question. I've tried both with and without 
hotplug, with no discernible difference.

Graham,
The sane site and other documents refer to "Epson Perfection 640" and quote 
it as a USB device. My device's label says "Perfection 640U". Perhaps 
there's a subtle difference here, in spite of the vendor and product codes' 
being detected.

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93

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