Hi, C. Cook writes:
> Well, bugger. So much for my attempts to compile the backend lib. > > I'll just get an extra-long USB cable to connect it to an x86_64 virtual > machine. > > The reason I bought this scanner is it is one of the very few with the > hinge on the -long- side, not the -short- side. Why do almost all > scanners require you to flop open a great long lid in order to change > papers? Doesn't anyone have any sense? > > Well I'll just be happy that networking is working now. It's hopeless to > ask for an arm64 driver from Epson. You're probably right but perhaps if enough people knock on the door ... The door seems to be here mailto : linux-printer @ epson.jp # Don't hold your breath. I'm still waiting to get my copyright claim # reinstated in their copy of epkowa.desc :-/ # Perhaps I should ping them again, it's been five months now ... I have seen armhf versions of their other Linux scanner "drivers" at http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php http://support.epson.net/linux/en/epsonscan2.php No, these don't support the V370 AFAICS but they do support the V39 which I *believe* is similar. > On 2020-09-12 19:58, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> C. Cook writes: >> >>> Ok questions: >>> >>> The Epson Perfection V370 apparently requires the iScan software which >>> can be downloaded from Epson for Linux. But it's not available for >>> arm64. I'd like my scan sever to be an Odroid N2+ which is arm64 >>> running Ubongo Mate. >>> >>> Now; I thought that all the other scanner backends required only the >>> backend conf in /etc/sane.d, but I find that there seem to be libs for >>> each scanner in /usr/lib64/libgphoto2/2.5.15/. >>> >>> On the Odroid running Ubongo I find these libs in >>> /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2/ and >>> /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/sane/ . >>> >>> Well iScan comes only in x86_64 flavor, although they do post the source: >>> >>> - Are these libs necessary for the scanners to work? >>> >>> - How do the client apps know which lib to pull? >>> >>> - Do I need to compile epkowa.so for the Odroid to make the V370 work? >>> >>> - Is there anything else I need to do? >> You need to get EPSON to provide arm64 binaries in order to get your >> V370 to work. >> >> As you can see in the list at >> >> http://sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA >> >> the V370 "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-perfection-v370". This >> plugin is only made available as a binary. No source is available. >> >> You can recompile the epkowa backend for arm64 all you want but that >> will only make it work for those models that do not require one of those >> non-free plugins that are needed by a select subset of devices supported >> by that backend :-/ >> >> Sorry this doesn't help, Hope this does, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
