[sane-devel] Epson, epson2 and epkowa

[Kåre Särs]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 01:37:50 you wrote:
> Kåre Särs <kare.sars at kolumbus.fi> writes:
> > I have a Epson RX500 scanner/printer and wonder what could be wrong
> > on Ubuntu Interpid when the scanner is only found with the epson
> > backend and not epson2 or epkowa.
>
> Weird.  Can you start a scan using the epson backend?
Yes I can.

> No clue.  Can you do the same exercise with the epkowa backend and
> attach the full log file.
>
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sars at sars-laptop:~$ SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=127 scanimage -L
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epkowa to 127.
[epkowa] sane_init: sane-backends 1.0.19
[epkowa] sane_get_devices()

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[epkowa] sane_exit
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I found a solution to the problem. There is no epkowa.conf in /etc/sane.d/ (or 
/etc/sane.d/dll.d/) Copying the default epcowa.conf file from the iscan sources 
made it work. Is this a Ubuntu bug or should the epkowa backend be able to 
work without the config file?

I can report it as a bug to Ubuntu if it is a Ubuntu bug.


Thanks,
    Kåre Särs