[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

[Claude Sutton]

I installed iscan-2.7.0-1.tar.gz

So I have to install the RPM package as well?

I don't think Ubuntu supports rpm's.

CSSJR


Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp):

> Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:
> 
> > I followed Olaf's instructions and after the reinstall, no contact with the
> > scanner.
> >
> > So I ran sane-find-scanner and:
> >
> >> sane-find-scanner returns the following and I have no idea what to do
> >> with
> >> the information.
> >>
> >>
> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c88, product=0x17da) at libusb:006:002
> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0483 [STMicroelectronics], product=0x2016
> >> [Biometric Coprocessor]) at libusb:004:003
> >
> >
> > I have an Epson Photo 4490 scanner.
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to try next?
> 
> Have you installed the non-free i386-only iscan-plugin-gt-x750 package?
> Without it, the scanner is not supported by the epkowa backend which
> comes as part of iscan.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- 
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