[sane-devel] Epson 3170 in Kubuntu

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Adrian Jadic <jadic at dallnet.net> writes:

> I have trouble using the Epson Perfection 3170 Photo in Kubuntu 6.06
>
> Kooka and scanimage recognise the scanner. However when I try to scan I am 
> getting the following errors:
> =================
> ~$ scanimage -L
> device `epson:libusb:001:004' is a Epson  flatbed scanner

This scanner is NOT supported by the epson backend.  It is also not
supported by the plustek or snapscan backends.  If you want to use
this scanner, you will have to use the epkowa backend together with a
non-free binary-only plugin.  Some distributions now include this
backend but the plugin is probably only available via:

  http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html

> ~$ scanimage
> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> ~$ kooka
> libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc)
> libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc)
> ScimInputContextPlugin()
> ~ScimInputContextPlugin()
> ~$
> =================
> This happens in both root and user.
> Can anyone help me get further here? This scanner works fine in SUSE 9.3
>
> metricus
> AMD 3000+, 1GB RAM, Kubuntu 6.06

The plugin is only available for i386 ...

Hope this helps,
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