[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1660 photo -> Driver(s)

[John Williams]

The end to my problems with the Epson 1660 scanner!
You wrote:
> That's a bit depending on your distribution. You can put "options
> scanner vendor=0x048b product=0x011e" in /etc/modules.conf to avoid
> entering the option numbers every time. For autoloading the driver,
> you can put "scanner" in /etc/modules (Debian) or "modprobe scanner"
> in a start-up file like boot.local in /etc/init.d. If you use hotplug
> utilities you will need to add the vendor and device ids to its list
> so the scanner module is loaded automatically. But I don't know
> details about this way.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
 
I'm using Mandrake 8.2 distro.
Dave Lerner has been helping too. He suggested editing 
/etc/hotplug/usb.distmap which I did but it did not succeed. But by chance I 
found /lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/modules.usbmap and had a 
look. It seemed to be very similar to /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap so I changed 
the scanner ID in that and to my great pleasure the scanner can now be 
started from the Desktop (a new scanner icon appeared on the Desktop).
Also, I found that Kodak slide transparencies scan well, it is just the 
colour negatives that look washed out, even when I apply the reversal button 
on the menu. I'm sure that will be sorted soon. Thank you both for your help, 
I never would have known what to do without it. John.