Hello,

On Jun 21 19:17 Dave Howorth wrote (shortened):
> I have an Epson RX620 all-in-one, which works fine on my Suse 9.3 x86-64
> system thanks to Johannes' help last year. I recently installed Suse
> 10.2 x86-64 and now it doesn't work :( 

Did you install openSUSE 10.2 anew from scratch or did you update
your existing Suse Linux 9.3 system?
 
> PRINTER
> 
> It seems to have recognized the printer - YaST and CUPS have an entry
> for it and say "Epson Stylus Photo RX620 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0
> Simplified". But I can't print anything to it. If I try - e.g. using the
> test facilty in YaST - nothing happens at the printer (no flashing
> light). CUPS says it is "Printer State: processing, accepting jobs,
> published." but also says " stylusphotorx620 (Default Printer) "Printer
> not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...". I've tried stopping and
> restarting the printer with no effect.

What exactly did you do to "stopping and restarting the printer"?
Did you use "cupsenable" to restart the printer?
What does "lpstat -p stylusphotorx620" show?

The "not connected" message indicates that the low-level communication
via USB with the printer doesn't work reliable or doesn't work at all,
see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
"The Backends"
What does "lpinfo -v" show?
Is your printer listed by "lsusb"?

See
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
"If problems are encountered"
how to get debugging information from the cupsd.


> SCANNER
> 
> sane says "no devices available". Again, I haven't found the right
> documentation. I found the page <http://en.opensuse.org/Epson> but it
> doesn't seem to say much and is wrong if I believe the description of
> the iscan package in YaST. Suse 10.2 has installed iscan-firmware but
> not iscan or iscan-free. I don't understand what it should be
> installing.

According to the driver description files all you need
is the iscan-free package, the RX620 doesn't need firmware.

In the YaST scanner config, it is listed as
  Epson Stylus Photo RX620: Driver epkowa (package iscan-free)...
so that the YaST scanner config should install the iscan-free package,
activate the epkowa line in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and then it should work.

If not, see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2
"USB Cable Connection and Additional USB Hubs"
and
"Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)"



> I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:14 +0100] Setting y2test device-uri to
> "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20RX620" (was "file:/dev/null".)
...
> I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started
> filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstops (PID 26161) for job 6.
> I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started
> filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 26162) for job 6.
> I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started
> filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0 (PID 26163)
> for job 6.
> I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started
> backend /usr/lib64/cups/backend/usb (PID 26164) for job 6.

There are no error messages of interest in this log (it looks o.k.).
Only with the CUPS debug messages (see above) there is a chance
to find out what there is really going on.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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