Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes: > I followed Olaf's instructions and after the reinstall, no contact with the > scanner. > > So I ran sane-find-scanner and: > >> sane-find-scanner returns the following and I have no idea what to do >> with >> the information. >> >> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c88, product=0x17da) at libusb:006:002 >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0483 [STMicroelectronics], product=0x2016 >> [Biometric Coprocessor]) at libusb:004:003 > > > I have an Epson Photo 4490 scanner. > > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to try next?
Have you installed the non-free i386-only iscan-plugin-gt-x750 package? Without it, the scanner is not supported by the epkowa backend which comes as part of iscan. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation 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
