Further to the thread re mysterious behaviour of 'sane-backends',
I remembered what happened when I set my new scanner up earlier in 2017.
There is no driver in 'sane-backends', because it contains a binary blob.
You have to download an appropriate pkg for the V550 from Epson,
which provides
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:28:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 171101 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> >> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
> >> Here all I get is :
> >> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
> >>
171101 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
>> Here all I get is :
>> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
>> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1
>> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so
>>
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:26:15 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
> > lists the installed backends here.
>
> Here all I get is :
>
> root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
> /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1
>
171101 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 'qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane'
> lists the installed backends here.
Here all I get is :
root:552 log> qlist sane-backends | grep usr/lib64/sane
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so.1
/usr/lib64/sane/libsane-dll.so
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:19:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 171030 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > ISTR that with use_expanded variables like this,
> > if you don't set the variable then all options are enabled,
> > so you've just built an un-Gentoolike version that works everywhere.
>
> That doesn't
171030 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:39:31 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it.
>> Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS,
>> which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'.
>> My
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:39:31 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it.
> Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS,
> which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'.
> My scanner is an 'Epson V550 Photo'.
>
'sane-backends-1.0.27' just stabilised, so I updated to it.
Previously I had selected 4 items from the list in SANE_BACKENDS,
which is shown by 'emerge', ie 'epson epson2 plustek plustek_pp'.
My scanner is an 'Epson V550 Photo'.
Wanting to test which of the 4 items above was needed, I tried
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