Re: [Sheflug] Document scanners for Gentoo?

["Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:43:28 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:51:02 A C Hurst wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried running this as root to confirm it is not a permissions issue? 
I seem to remember a permissions issue which should be fixed now, make sure 
your user is in the scanner group too.
>
> > 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.

I have an Epson Perfection 1660 Photo which works very well on my amd64 Gentoo 
workstation. Sorry about not joining in on the thread on gentoo-amd64, really 
busy right now and not really following lists very actively...

Thanks,

Marcus

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