I installed iscan-2.7.0-1.tar.gz
So I have to install the RPM package as well? I don't think Ubuntu supports rpm's. CSSJR Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp): > 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 -- If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom in a manner we consider to be eccentric.
