[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1660 Not Working

[trog at wincom.net]

This is driving me nuts, especially because this used to
work just fine, but no longer does.

sane-find-scanner

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something
different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
  # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your
operating system.
  # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x011e) at
/dev/usb/scanner0
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011e
[EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may
not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other
proprietary ports can't be
  # detected by this program.

scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something
different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected
by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the
documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255 scanimage -d espon:/dev/usb/scanner0
scanimage: open of device espon:/dev/usb/scanner0 failed:
Invalid argument

cat /etc/sane.d/epson.conf
# epson.conf
usb /dev/usb/scanner0

scanimage --version
scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.13; backend version 1.0.2

ls -l /usr/lib/sane/libsane-ep*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        87140 Jan 21  2003
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epsonkw.so.1.0.6
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          866 Dec  2 22:56
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Dec  2 22:56
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so -> libsane-epson.so.1.0.13
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           37 Dec  2 23:50
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1 ->
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.13
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       276951 Dec  2 22:56
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.13
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        78384 Sep 11 08:09
/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epson.so.1.0.8

Any ideas?

DG