Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi there, >........................... > Only other USB device (Epson Photo 830 printer) works primo. > > I'm on Mandrake 9.0, and prefer KDE 3.03 to the other GUI's > supplied with the dist. Kernel is 2.4.19mdk...USB devices > program happily 'talks' to the scanner (ie...sees it on the > USB bus), but sane isn't as co-operative. There are several > conflicting reports about the status/useability of the Epson > 1260, which peeves me and confuses me, since the first thing > I saw was on www.mostang.com/sane/ that said the 1260 was > working and stable under the plustek backend... > Have you checked /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and ./plustek.conf for lines commented out or not commented out?. Back up these files, then alter as may appear necessary. Also look at and try ./epson.conf but my copy of this file will not work without editing, its almost all commented out with a #. Also are you running xsane as root. The author advised me that this is necessary on lp0, don't know about usb.
HTH Barry.
