[sane-devel] HELP! Epson Perfection 4180 Photo

[brinkleybw at bigfoot.com]

Right, silly me...if it wasn't obvious in my message below, using usb
without the vendor and product IDs worked fine.  I can now acquire very nice
images into GIMP using Xsane, iScan, Xscanimage, etc.

-Brandon


On 7/17/06, brinkleybw at bigfoot.com <brinkleybw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello all!
>
> I wanted to post the solution for my problem with SANE and the Epson
> Perfection 4180 Color, should it prove useful for someone else in the
> future.  As previously mentioned, the epkowa drivers and related plugin were
> loaded per the Avasys instructions.  The logs were showing evidence that the
> firmware file was not being loaded (all calls to the device were failing).
> In an earlier attempt to remove ambiguity while debugging the SANE config
> files (before properly loading epkowa), I had added the vendor and product
> IDs to the usb line in the conf file (usb 0x04b8 0x0118), thereby triggering
> a bug in the backend.  According to Olaf Meeuwissen, who was a great help in
> all of this, the problem only affects models that require iscan plugins and
> this bug has been fixed for the next release.  Thanks again, Olaf!
>
> -Brandon
>
>
>
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