[sane-devel] two instances of the same device

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

François Patte writes:

> I have an epson perfection 4490 photo scanner which works fine with
> sane, but as I upgraded my linux box to fedora 21, I had to make a new
> configuration and I get some issue now.
>
> I installed last iscan driver from avasys and now it takes ages to get
> the sane window which gives me the choice between 2 scanners (I have
> only one usb scaner):
>
> 1- epson (unknown model) epkowa usb: 005:010
>
> 2- epson (perfection 4490) epkowa interpreter: 005:010
>
> Only the second one works, if I choose the first one, xsane ends...
>
> I commented out all other scanner in dll.conf (including net), but
> nothing has changed...
>
> How can I correct this behaviour?

What's in your epkowa.conf?  You should be fine with only a single "usb"
entry in there.

What's in /var/lib/iscan/interpreter?  You should have only a single
line for you Perfection 4490 (aka GT-X750).  See `iscan-registry --help`
for what it should look like.

Hope this helps,
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