[sane-devel] Getting Epson stylus CX5000 scanner working

[m. allan noah]

does it work as root? is epson or epson2 enabled in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf?

allan

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM, tj <999alfred at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Yes, the chart says it should work, but it doesn't! xsane says no scanner
> found, so what can I do to make xsane find it? (and yes, I user is in
> scanner group)
>
> tj
>>
>> m. allan noah wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This scanner is listed as having good support by the epson and epson2
>>> backends from sane-backends 1.0.20. Strangely, it is missing from
>>> epkowa and from the development version of epson2 (probably a .desc
>>> file error).
>>>
>>
>> Huh?  The epkowa backend lists it as supported at
>>  http://sane.alioth.debian.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA
>> and in the git repository
>>
>>
>> http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=doc/descriptions-external/epkowa.desc;h=eb92e21ae7db707354c75af82df6fcd49c6cef91;hb=HEAD
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:39 AM, tj <999alfred at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> and sane-find-scanner
>>>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x082b [USB2.0
>>>> MFP(Hi-Speed)]) at libusb:001:003
>>>> and in /lib/udev/rules.d/80-libsane.rules
>>>> ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="082b", MODE="0664",
>>>> GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
>>>>
>>
>> You may also want to double check that you are a member of the scanner
>> group, although the fact that you can use your other USB scanner would
>> indicate that this is the case.  You can do so with the `groups` command
>> or by looking in the /etc/group file.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> - --
>> Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2           FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
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>>
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