[sane-devel] Xsane and Iscan

[Karl F. Larsen]

	I'm using Red Hat version 8 which has SANE and Xsane loaded from 
the start. I decided to try and get my Epson Perfection 1250 scanner to 
work in Linux. While reading all the data on the various web pages I 
clicked on something on the Epson page and that got me to a page outside 
the USA. There they talked about getting Epson scanners working in 
Linux. They had a lot of stuff about loading the scanner module and some 
other things, and then it had a place to download something. 

	The thing asked for my Epsom scanner model and what version of 
Linux and then I downloaded a RPM file. I installed the RPM and did the 
stuff they asked for and Iscan never worked.

	Then somewhere I learned about sane-find-scanner and that my 
scanner must use the plustek "back end", whatever that is. After a day 
of fooling around and all of a sudden Xsane started working! But Iscan 
still doesn't and I'm not at all sure why. Maybe Iscan needs a 
epson.conf of some sort?

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