[sane-devel] Problems with sane and USB

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:12:39PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 cl at isbd.net wrote:
> 
> >If I run "sane-find-scanner" as root it correctly says:-
> >
> >   found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON 
> >   Scanner]) at libusb:7:2
> >
> >I can make this work as a user by changing permissions but I'm not
> >clear how to make the change 'stick'.
> 
> look at the docs for udev, i assume slack uses it.
> 
> >
> >If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified".
> >
> >If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners.
> 
> the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means 
> that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's 
> original one, and one in /usr/local
> 
Ah, thanks, it's possible that I do have two copies of sane installed,
I'll investigate.

> >
> >If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as a user they only see the HP
> >all-in-one scanner.
> 
> permissions
> 
> >
> >If I run iscan (which I have installed) it says "Could not send
> >command to scanner".
> >
> 
> no idea. i dont use epson stuff or iscan.
> 
> >
> >So how do I get this all to work consistently?
> >
> 
> trash all copies of sane on system. try again? i dont know if you need the 
> proprietary modules or if the epson backend works?
> 
The epson backend is supposed to work with the V700.  There's an
"epkowa" backend specifically for iscan.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)