[sane-devel] Epson 3170 in Kubuntu

[Adrian Jadic]

I also had installed iscan 2.0 and I was getting the message: could not 
connect to scanner. please check..something
I the way I installed it was to convert the rpm to deb and then installed it.

metricus


On Tuesday 13 June 2006 00:54, you wrote:
> 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,