[sane-devel] Epson Stylus CX-6400

[Bernie Gardner]

Thanks for the reply.  I submitted a report to the unsuppo...
form.  I'll keep playing with as I have time and report an...


Bernie Gardner


COn Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:21, gerard klaver wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:40, Bernie Gardner wrote:
> > I am trying to get an Epson Stylus CX6400 to work in SuSE Linux 9.0. 
> > LinuxPrinting.org lists it as compatible with the CX-5200 which is shown
> > as untested on the sane compatiblility list.  The scanner is recognized
> > by sane-find-scanner as:
> > 
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0805) at /dev/usb/scanner0
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0805) at /dev/usbscanner
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0805 [USB2.0 MFP])
> > at libusb:001:004
> > 
> > But scanimage -L says no scanners were identified.  If I try to use
> > Kooka as a front end, it identifies:
> > 
> > epkowa:/dev/usb/scanner0
> > Epson PX-A650
> > 
> > but doesn't actually do anything.
> > 
> > I can't figure where the PX-A650 identification is coming from.
> > 
> > I realize it may not be possible to get this to work at this point, but
> > I would appreciate any hints.  I haven't used sane before and am a
> > little lost.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Bernie Gardner
> 
> Some Epson scanners have a different name for different part of the
> world but the software can handle only one name.
> The Epson perfection 1660 photo for example is when used with XSANE 
> named GT8300.
> 
> 
> with sane-find-scanner -v -v  (as root) or with lsusb -v you can collect
> more data
> 
> if you send this information to the list or fill in the form see data on
> http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html
> 
> then this can be added to the unsupported list and can speed up the
> proces of getting  a working backend.