Jim MacLeod <[email protected]> writes: > My system is kubuntu 5.10 and I'm hoping to get an Epson 3490 working. > I know it's not the ideal route to go, but I downloaded the rpm version and > used alien to convert it to .deb and then installed it with dpkg. > The only conflict was with libsane-extra which I removed.
There's a good chance that the %post script was not converted so a number of post-install activities may not have been carried out. > Files have installed in expected places - /usr/lib, /usr/lib/iscan etc and > the program runs, but only to advise "Could not send command to scanner. > Check status" Have you added the epkowa backend to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf? What architecture are you using? It'll only work on IA32 (32bit ix86). > cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows no driver loaded. Does sane-find-scanner list the device? > Vuescan works ok so I can at least be sure it's not a hardware problem. > <gripe> It's to be regretted that both vuescan and iscan describe themselves > as 'stand-alone' but only vuescan does as it says.</gripe> > > However, has anyone got iscan working on a debian system or can offer any > pointers. Relative newbie, so easy on the technical stuff. Works fine for me ;-) All iscan development (even my hacking at home) is done on Debian GNU/Linux testing machines. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 30EF893A/2774 815B DE83 06C8 D733 6B5B 033C C857 30EF 893A Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
