[sane-devel] Epson 3170 in Kubuntu

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Adrian Jadic <jadic at dallnet.net> writes:

> Just another reminder that Iscan works on my machine. I have a feeling you 
> understood that it doesn't. Am I wrong?

No, you are right.  I was indeed under the impression that iscan did
NOT work for you.  Sorry about the misunderstanding.

> To recap. Yes, as you said I installed the two iscan files from avasys and 
> together with libsane everything went fine. 
> (BTW why don't you also provide deb packages on the Avasys website? As there 
> is no source for the plugin all we have is an RPM.)

I'd suggest sending a short mail requesting this (with a rationale) to
pipsnews at avasys dot jp.

In the mean time, alien is your friend.  The plugins don't do anything
special before/after (un)installing, so there should be no problems.

> scanimage command also moves the scanner.
>
> The big mystery is why kooka and Gwenview don't work.
> And a bigger mystery is why they do work in SUSE 9.3 with KDE 3.5.2 and they 
> don't work with the same KDE version on a newer kernel in both suse and 
> Kubuntu.
> There is another thread on the Kubuntu forum about this issue and other people 
> have also complained that after an upgrade to Dapper the 3170 scanner does 
> not fire-up anymore. It appears I'm not the only one with this issue.

You might want to post the URL so we can all go take a look ;-)

> I did a verbose debug and attaching the files for iscan and kooka

Thanks for the logs but they don't say anything new.  I think the
problem is with libkscan (perhaps indirectly because Scim is also
bleating).

> Another curious thing: on SUSE 9.3 I see no libkscan...is this a clue?

As a package?  I just checked a default 9.3 Professional install and
there most certainly is a libkscan.so under /opt/kde3/lib.

> [snip]

Still hope this helps,
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