[sane-devel] Epson V200 Scanner, 64Bit Ubuntu

[Patrick Scheibe]

Hi Ivan,

thank you for this information. I'll try to install it on my 32bit
machine.

Cheers
Patrick

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:33 +0600, Ivan Boldyrev wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Patrick Scheibe <patrick at yoursort.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to use an Epson V200 Photo USB Scanner on my Linux Box ...
> > I'm afraid that the proprietary libraries need to be 64bit libs.
> 
> I have same problem; Avasys recently promised to release 64-bit
> version of the plugin, but I slowly working on open-source driver.
> 
> The possible solutions:
> 
> 1. Wait before someone (be it me or some else) release open-source driver.
> 2. Wait before Avasys release 64-bit version of plugin.
> 3. Run 32 bit chroot and talk with 32-bit part over TCP/IP.
> 4. Switch to 32 bits.
> 
> P.S. 4ALL:  I was wrong, and V200 has binary mode; and it seems I can
> soon release driver for binary mode; I haven't experimented with
> grayscale much.  I'm sorry I haven't release my current results yet,
> but I had little time...  I will try really hard :)
> 
> -- 
> Ivan Boldyrev
>