I bought an Epson V550 scanner & have been trying it out. No joy on Gentoo : Xsane can't find it & various ploys fail.
I also have Mint Xfce 17.2 installed for this kind of occasion. Epson offers a driver in .deb format for Mint, which I've downloaded. After copying it to the Mint partition & following the install instruction, Xsane there does indeed find the scanner & starts up. I succeeded in scanning 1 test image : it's much much quicker than my 2003 Epson & the image is quite adequate. It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on Gentoo ? -- I can reboot into Mint whenever I want to scan something, but anything which cb done via another distro sb available with Gentoo too. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
