Thanks for the reply. I submitted a report to the unsuppo... form. I'll keep playing with as I have time and report an...
Bernie Gardner COn Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:21, gerard klaver wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:40, Bernie Gardner wrote: > > I am trying to get an Epson Stylus CX6400 to work in SuSE Linux 9.0. > > LinuxPrinting.org lists it as compatible with the CX-5200 which is shown > > as untested on the sane compatiblility list. The scanner is recognized > > by sane-find-scanner as: > > > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0805) at /dev/usb/scanner0 > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0805) at /dev/usbscanner > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0805 [USB2.0 MFP]) > > at libusb:001:004 > > > > But scanimage -L says no scanners were identified. If I try to use > > Kooka as a front end, it identifies: > > > > epkowa:/dev/usb/scanner0 > > Epson PX-A650 > > > > but doesn't actually do anything. > > > > I can't figure where the PX-A650 identification is coming from. > > > > I realize it may not be possible to get this to work at this point, but > > I would appreciate any hints. I haven't used sane before and am a > > little lost. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Bernie Gardner > > Some Epson scanners have a different name for different part of the > world but the software can handle only one name. > The Epson perfection 1660 photo for example is when used with XSANE > named GT8300. > > > with sane-find-scanner -v -v (as root) or with lsusb -v you can collect > more data > > if you send this information to the list or fill in the form see data on > http://www.sane-project.org/contrib.html > > then this can be added to the unsupported list and can speed up the > proces of getting a working backend.
