Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard at free.fr> writes: > Le 16.11.2007 02:49, Olaf Meeuwissen a ?crit : >> Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard at free.fr> writes: >> >>> [snip] >>> Epson backend seems to do a better job than epokwa. The Linux distribution >>> is >>> Ubuntu 7.10. >> >> Apart from the fact that we don't provide .debs (yet), in what respect >> does the epson backend do a better job than the epkowa backend? >> As the maintainer of the latter, I'd like to know ;-) > > Oops ! I was using XSane and I compared a *grayscale* scan made by the > epson backend and a *black and white* scan made by the epkowa backend. > The grayscale one was better. Sorry for that.
You're forgiven ;-) >> BTW, our .rpms should convert cleanly to .debs (on i386 and similar at >> least) with >> >> alien --scripts --keep-version iscan-*.i386.rpm >> >> After that, all you should need to do is install. There should be no >> need to fiddle with libsane.rules. > > My scanner wasn't recognized until I had a line in libsane.rules. And I > read this at the top of this file: If you built from source (or convert with alien *without* --scripts) that is to be expected. Image Scan! creates its own iscan.rules in the post-installation phase (using libsane.rules as a template when found). > # The following list already contains a lot of scanners. If your scanner > # isn't mentioned there, add it as explained above and mail the entry to > # the sane-devel mailing list (sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org). > > I wrote this mail to get my scanner id added to libsane.rules. Maybe I should > have written to Ubuntu instead ? Ubuntu should be getting them automatically with the next update of their SANE packages now that Julien Blache has committed the patch to epkowa.desc I sent a few days ago. That files includes USB info for all the devices supported by iscan-2.10.0. The last update before that was iscan-2.3.0, IIRC. Blame me. 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
