On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 16:44 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Also not, perhaps, a 64-bit problem, but can someone please confirm that > they can plug a USB scanner in and have it work? I have an Epson Perfection > 640U which works under M$ but not Gentoo. > > I'm trying to follow gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_USB_Scanner, although > it's not easy with so many variations being covered in the one document. I > get as far as: > > # sane-find-scanner -q > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010c [Perfection640 ]) > at libusb:002:007 > > ...but: > # scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. [...] > > I can locate the /dev/usbdev* devices that are created when I plug the > scanner in; changing their ownership to root:scanner has no effect on > scanimage. I am in the scanner group, but running as root makes no > difference anyway. > > Udev is at version 106, kernel 2.6.20, hotplug is started in the default > run-level (though it seems to make no difference); what else can I say? > > Do I have to write a udev rule? /lib64/modules/2.6.20-gentoo/modules.usbmap > contains nothing pertaining to my scanner, or is this a red herring? > > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug contains a single blank line. Another red herring? > > -- > Rgds > Peter Humphrey > Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93
Not solely a scanner, but my Brother MFC-6800 scans, and prints under Gentoo, and it's attached via USB. It requires a bit of playing with /dev directory permissions to allow the normal user to use it however. FYI, I used Xsane, and followed the gentoo-wiki page. -- [email protected] mailing list
