Scott Barnham <[email protected]> writes: > Hi. > > I'm struggling to get an Epson Perfection 4180 Photo scanner to work > with the Epkowa back-end. I'm running Ubuntu Dapper. > > I get message: "Failed to find all required interpreter API". I can't > find any reference to this, so I'm a bit stuck. Any idea what it means?
That there is something seriously wrong with the interpreter module (libesint43.so) you installed or the backend you are using. > scanimage finds the USB device and attaches. libesint43.so is installed > and it appears the back-end is finding it (scanimage used to error > loading the library before I installed it from the rpm). I can see the > firmware file at /usr/share/iscan/esfw43.bin. iscan fails to load, > complaining it can't find libesmod.so.1 (which is there > in /usr/local/lib), but I understand this isn't required by sane. libesmod.so is only used by iscan. If you use scanimage, xsane or any other SANE backend, it is neither necessary nor used. > This is the relevant output from: SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=255 scanimage -L > > [epkowa] attach_one_usb() > [epkowa] SANE EPKOWA Backend 1.16.0-3 - 2005-06-29 Eh, this is way old ... and does not work with the current plugin modules. Do yourself a favour and get iscan-2.x, make sure you use the packages for gcc-3.4 or later for both the iscan and plugin package and try again. Ideally, you'd be using (as per download page[1]): iscan-2.4.0-0.c2.i386.rpm iscan-plugin-gt-f600-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm and install both with: $ sudo alien --install --scripts RPM_FILE after you removed all traces of iscan from your system. > [epkowa] attach(, 3) > [epkowa] attach: opening > [epkowa] attach_one_usb(libusb:005:006) > [epkowa] SANE EPKOWA Backend 1.16.0-3 - 2005-06-29 > [epkowa] attach(libusb:005:006, 3) > [epkowa] attach: opening libusb:005:006 > [epkowa] Found valid EPSON scanner: 0x4b8/0x118 (vendorID/productID) > [epkowa] failed to find all required interpreter API > [epkowa] close_scanner(fd = 0) > > Thanks for your help. References: [1] http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
