2010/3/1 Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> did you install epkowa- it does not ship with sane. Try epson2. >>> >>> allan >> >> As far as I know, I have epkowa installed. Before adding it to the >> dll.conf, I did an apt-cache search epkowa, which turned up just >> libsane-extras, which I already had installed. > > That package only contains the epkowa backend proper. ?Unfortunately, > your particular model (Perfection 3170) requires a non-free binary-only > plugin to work. ?The plugin is available for the i386 architecture as an > RPM at: > > ?http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do > > NOTE: the plugin only works with epkowa backend versions before 2.11.0. > So I suggest you: > > ?1) apt-get remove libsane-extras > ?2) alien --install --to-deb --scripts --keep-version > iscan-2.10.0-1.i386.rpm > ?3) alien --install --to-deb --scripts --keep-version > iscan-plugin-gt-9400-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm > > If you want Debian packages or need amd64 packages, please file contact > AVASYS at: > > ?https://avasys.jp/eng/contact/inquiry/inq_form4_en.php > > No guarantees that they'll be able to help, but you can always ask. > > Hope this helps, > - -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 ? ? ? ? ? FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
It does! Scans fine now. Thinking years back, I must've done this once before, on the system that I wiped out recently. I'm keeping notes this time around... -- gwern
