did you install epkowa- it does not ship with sane. Try epson2. allan
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: >> The epson backend is deprecated and unsupported. Please use epson2 >> instead. You may have to disable epson and enable epson2 in >> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. >> >> allan > > Thanks for the advice. I edited dll.conf & commented out epson, and > added in 'epkowa', which some forums/emails mentioned worked with > their Epson 3170, and rebooted. > > 'sudo scanimage -L' tells me no scanners were identified. 'sudo > sane-finder-scanner' on the other hand tells me > "found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON > Scanner]) at libusb:001:006" > > Trying 'scanimage --device-name='epson:libusb:001:006' --mode='Binary' > --source='Flatbed' > image.pnm' just results in a an empty file. > > -- > gwern > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
