On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:35:32 +0000 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > > well bugger me, but i seem to recall it working at the workshop > > evening some months ago. > > Yep, but under Mandrake 9.0 with kernel 2.4.19...now I'm running > Mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-mdk.xx.xx. It is the Epson iscan > program I need to get working, xsane 'works' enough to scan using > the scanner but the quality is terrible... > > > hard to believe a scanner is less compatible with a LATER kernel. > > > > perhaps you just need so suss out a fix. > > If you go to Epson-Kowa website, and read the scanners forum you > will see I am certainly not alone with this issue of iscan failing > to run on later distros/kernels... > > > is it a simple matter of the card not being in the kernel's > > database? I seem to recall wee loaded the module with explicit > > vendor and product id's > > Yep. A simple 'insmod' in rc.local fixed that, but now with a newer > version of Mandrake and of iscan it doesn't wanna go... > > The current rpm comes in 2 flavours...1 made with gcc 2.9.x, and a > bug-fixed version made with gcc 3.2.x to try and fix the > segfaulting... neither version appears to make any difference to me. > Both segfault shortly after trying to do anything after the initial > window pops up. I grabbed the source, and after fixing the ./configure > I could not complete the make without aborting due to multitudes of > errors...
are you building the from the tar file or the source rpm? and what sort of errors? > > Its been 4 months, and Epson have yet to release any bug-fixes or > anything at all related to fixing this problem with iscan. Xsane > is simply not an option due to poor quality/slow speed, and I have > a large number of photographs to deal with. I take photography very > seriously so I need the best quality from the scanner... > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > > >
