Johannes Meixner <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > According to the model decription files there are two backends > which support an Epson (Stylus) CX 5400 > epson for "Epson CX-5400" with USB-IDs 0x04b8:0x0808 and 0x04b8:0x0801 > and > epkowa for "Epson Stylus CX5400" with USB-ID 0x04b8:0x0801 > > I assume the "Epson CX-5400" and the "Epson Stylus CX5400" > are the same so that there seems to be a USB ID confusion and > a model name confusion for this model?
Yes, these would be the same. It appears that the epkowa backend has the product ID wrong. Stylus CX5100/CX5200 0x0801 Stylus CX5300/CX5400 0x0808 On a related note, the CX6600 is listed with two product IDS, but it appears that the following is correct: Stylus CX6300/CX6400 0x0805 Stylus CX6500/CX6600 0x0808 The Stylus CX5100/CX5200 corresponds to the Japanese CC-600PX and all the other models do not have a corresponding Japanese version. We'll put fixing this on the list the next iscan release. > For details background information see > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229250 > > At least for the user who sent us the above bug report, > the epson backend does not work for his scanner 0x04b8:0x0808 > (SANE debug outputs are attached to the bug report) but epkowa > works after adding 0x04b8:0x0808 to epkowa.conf. > > Perhaps there is some subtle difference so that the epson backend > works only for0x04b8:0x0801 but not for 0x04b8:0x0808? The difference is not that subtle and has been mentioned on the list before, IIRC. Yes, here it is: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-December/018296.html The epson backend maintainer was Cc:d on that mail. There is also a Debian bug that mentions it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399119 The right thing to do is to remove the block from the code of the epson backend. 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
