[sane-devel] Can't find scanner

[Todd And Margo Chester]

> On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <toddandmargo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am using Scientific Linux 6.1 x 64 (RHEL clone).
>>
>> I have an Epson Perfection V300 scanner.
>>
>> $ rpm -qa \*xsane\*
>> xsane-common-0.997-8.el6.x86_64
>> xsane-0.997-8.el6.x86_64
>>
>> # scanimage -L
>> No scanners were identified;
>>
>> # lsusb | grep -i eps
>> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04b8:0131 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection V300;
>>
>> 60-libsane.rules:
>> # Epkowa Epson Perfection V300
>> ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0131",
>> ENV{libsane_matched}="yes", MODE="0664", OWNER="root", GROUP="users" ;
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?

On 12/07/2011 12:30 PM, Jon Sharp wrote:
 > Hi Todd,
 >
 > I have a machine with CentOS 5.4 and a different scanner, I did find
 > that after I created the libsane rules file with the device ID, and
 > later restarted the machine a second time, the rules file was
 > overwritten and I had to then edit it to add my slightly newer version
 > scanner.
 >
 > Don't know if that's your problem but maybe worth a double check.
 >
 > -Jon
 >

Frustrating.  My scanner works fine on my other CentOS 5.7 x32
machine:

      # scanimage -L
      device `epkowa:interpreter:001:003' is a Epson Perfection V300
      flatbed scanner

Mumble mumble mumble

-T