> I also own a 4490 Photo. > I was running Gentoo 64bit on my workstation some times ago, but the > epkowa backend was not provided for 64bit arch (this is not the case > anymore, but I'm lazy, so I didn't change my config). The way I've > found to use the scanner with Gentoo 64 was connecting the 4490 to a 32 > bit Gentoo server running saned+epkowa, and access it through the net > backend. > 64 bit reinstall is planned for next September.
I got the 4490 going by setting up a 32bit Gentoo chroot, and it is running fine from inside that. Still can't get scanimage to find it in the 64bit Gentoo.
