[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:

> I installed iscan-2.7.0-1.tar.gz
>
> So I have to install the RPM package as well?

Yes, you have to install iscan-plugin-gt-x750-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm.

> I don't think Ubuntu supports rpm's.

That's easily fixed with alien.  You can use

   sudo alien --scripts --install iscan-plugin-gt-x750-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm

to install.  Doing the same for the iscan RPM has been reported to
"work" by several people but EPSON AVASYS doesn't test that.  Just
make sure you use the --scripts option.  If you don't you're in for
trouble as you'll have to do a lot manually yourself ;-)

One more point, seeing you compiled from source, you probably didn't
use --prefix=/usr at ./configure time.  This _could_ be a cause of
trouble.  Again EPSON AVASYS doesn't test that.

Finally, your machine is 32-bit Intel, right?  The plugin won't work
on 64-bit machines (unless you run a mixed 32/64-bit setup and even
then it gets ugly).

Hope this helps,

> 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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