My Epson Perfection V500 stopped working after I upgraded from 17.04 to
17.10, as per everyone else's.
I created the softlink
$sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
gnu/sane
and created the file
$sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules
with content
ATTRS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", DRIVERS=="usb", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb",
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
Still no joy.
>>>I then remembered to power the scanner off and on again <<<<
It works!
Thanks to all you wonderful Ubuntu users out there...
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728012
Title:
Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change
Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Many scanners can no more be used since sane has changed something:
The 3rd-party plug-in the vendor provides as .deb package will still
install. But the scanner is no more recognized.
Scanners that are affected are(besides others):
- Epson Perfection V10
- Epson Perfection V1000
- Epson WorkForce GT-1500
- Brother MFC-8510DN
- Epson Perfection V33
It is to note that the probability that the scanner manufacturers fix
things others broke is below 100%.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libsane1 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.14.0-041400rc5-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 27 12:35:52 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: sane-backends
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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