[sane-devel] Epson 3170 in Kubuntu

[Adrian Jadic]

My mistake: I had installed the libsane-extras but not the iscan plugin.

Now it works only with iscan.

Since I see you are at avasys could you explain to me why in SUSE 9.3 kooka 
works just fine with this scanner (w epkowa installed) and in later suse 
releases as well as in Kubuntu (as I found out) I cannot get Kooka to fire up 
the scanner?
I managed to make kooka see the scanner by inserting a line with the data for 
this scanner in the etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules. Before it would only 
see it if run in root.
So now kooka displays that small window with "choosing device" and the Epson 
3170 is listed correctly.
But when I press "preview" or "scan" nothing happens.

Thank you,
A Jadic

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,