[sane-devel] Support for Epson All-in-one

[Russbucket]

On Friday 30 September 2005 01:35 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:17:14PM -0700, Russbucket wrote:
> > On Friday 30 September 2005 09:13 am, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:49:24AM -0700, Russbucket wrote:
> > > > I just updated SANE to version 1.0.15-21 on SuSE 9.1.
> > >
> > > That's quite old. 1.0.16 is the current stable version. Which version
> > > did you use before? Have you updated only SANE or also other packages?
> >
> > I down loaded the latest YaST showed available for SuSE 9.1. No other
> > packages.
>
> This only means that SuSE hasn't made current packages. Anyway,
> you don't seem to use the sane-backends distribution but IScan/epkowa
> so the sane version doesn't matter. So I'm surprised that SANE should
> have any influence on yast behaviour.
>
> > I have been using epkowa and Iscan since I wasunable initally to get the
> > scanner configured as epson.
>
> So it's not related to sane-backends.
>
> > > Is it found by sane-find-scanner? If yes, is it found by "scanimage
> > > -L"?
> >
> > sane-find-scanner: YES
> >   found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0813 [USB2.0 MFP])
> > at libusb:001:003
> >   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> > supported by
> >   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> >
> > scanimage: YES
> >   device `epkowa:libusb:001:003' is a Epson Stylus CX6500/CX6600 flatbed
> > scanner
>
> So there is also no problem with detection of that scanner.
>
> > As I said the only place I seem to have a problem is with YaSt hardware
> > configure manually. No vendors show up even one that exist in the
>
> As SANE seems to work, why do you want to fiddle with yast at all?
> SANE doesn't need yast. If you still want to get yast detection
> working, I guess SuSE support or mailing lists are better suited for
> that as it's not really related to sane.
>
> > Thanks for your help. Is there an Epson backend for this All-in-one?
>
> As I said in my last mail, your scanner is not in the list of
> supported devices. However, when I grep the source code of the epson
> backen, it is mentioned there. This can only be answered by the epson
> backend maintainer, I guess.
>
> Bye,
>   Henning
Thanks for you reply and help. I will not worry about it anymore, unless I 
runinto problems installing in SuSE 10.0. I guess I was confused by the 
scanner being in the sane backend also.

Thanks again.
-- 
Russbucket