[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:

> Sudo lshw shows everything in my system is 32 bit other than multimedia,
> which shows 64 bit.
>
> The machine is a Thinkpad T60P with a T7600 duo core.
>
> Ubuntu 6.06 
>
> kernal:  2.6.15-28-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 10 09:56:30 UTC 2007 i686

OK, your machine is 32-bit Intel.  Our RPMs should work just fine when
installed via alien.

If you install iscan from RPM, please remove the version you compiled
from source.  From the directory where you did `make install`, do a
`make uninstall` and everything should be gone.

Hope this helps,

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