On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:54:12PM -0200, Marcio Braga wrote: > Hello, I'm new on Linux and in this list. My intention is to help > sharing my experience making this target scanner to work on Linux from > OpenSuSE 10.1 on x86-64 arch. Just in case, I wrote a small "how to" on: > http://en.opensuse.org/Epson_Perfection_3490_Photo > > > Considering OpenSuSE already with Sane, the major steps are: > > 1. Check if usb hoplug recognized your usb scanner: Use command line > "lsusb" to check.
Check : Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:0122 Seiko Epson Corp. Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > 2. Check if sane let snapscan be available: Uncomment snapscan > in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf Check : Only snapscan is enabled in dll.conf > > 3. Check if snapscan recognize the usb scanner: On OpenSuSE use YaST > (Hardware/Scanner). Do not know how to do it on Ubuntu. Check : firmware /usr/share/iscan/esfw52.bin and /usr/share/iscan/esfw52.bin does exist. > > 4. Check if snapscan.conf (on /etc/sane.d) pointing correctly to the > target scanner firmware esfw52.bin. > > obs: You can get the firmware esfw52.bin installing iscan-firmware 1.18 > rpm package (in this 1.18 version there are packages for i386, i586 and > x86-64 arch). I got already several from these packages, and a few months ago I compared them. It seems that this firmware is very stable. > > That was all for me. scanimage command line works and so xsane. > > Regards > Marcio > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] As a last resort, I tried it as an ordinary user instead of root. Wouldn't you know that this works ? So, using the scanner as root blocks on listing devices, but as an ordinary user (member of group scanner) this works. Alright, everybody thanks for the help. Regards, Jurgen
