[sane-devel] epson perfection 1670 under debian

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org> writes:

> MarC <marc_contrib@ramonvinyes.es> wrote:
>
>> My scanner *used to work some months ago* and now I can't find why
>> it's not working. I'm running a debian testing up to date with a
>> multimedia-low latency kernel.
>> I have copied the ESFW30.BIN file, setup the permissions, etc and it
>> worked wonderfully before.
>>
>> But now each time that I run xsane it displays: "no device found".
>> Usb is detected at the right place.
>> What am I missing? Can you give me any clue?
>
> Do you have libsane-extras installed ? If yes, remove it and try
> again. With the current libsane in testing, the backends from
> libsane-extras are tried first, and there's the epkowa backend in
> there ...

Which does NOT support this scanner at the moment.

> A new libsane revision will enter testing in a few days fixing this
> problem.
>
> By the way, you don't need your config.sh script, hotplug takes care
> of that for you.
>
> JB.

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