Hi Everyone I have an Epson 3490. It did work in Ubuntu Edgy but not too well. If I used it in Windoze and then Ubuntu it worked fine. However if it was not re-initialized under windoze every so often it would not work.
Now I have upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. From what I have read on the net there were kernel issues that caused scanner troubles in Feisty. We were supposed to install scanbutton and run scanbuttond as a normal user. I did that but it did not help. I don't know if I have a scanner problem or an Ubuntu problem. The scanner is being found $ sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0122 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:005:002 $ scanimage -L device `snapscan:libusb:005:002' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner but I get this message when I use xsane: Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:005:002"; Invalid argument Someone posted a configuration file fix but I can't find any mention of a firmware file in test.conf you then edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and replace : firmware /etc/sane.d/test.conf with the full path to the firmware and it should work fine and dandy ! I am pretty mixed up please help. BTW if you think I might be able to help with sane please let me know. I don't think my programming skills are quite there yet but I do have a lot of nice electronic and optical test equipment. I am not sure if there is any need to do tests at the chip level. Just a thought.... Thanks in advance-Patrick
