On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 20:23 -0400, Pedro wrote:
I have a Visioneer OnTouch 8700 USB scanner
(actually a Primax USB scanner?)
vendor=0x0461, product=0x0371, Realtek RTS8801B chipset
Its said to be supported by the linux kernel scanner driver,
(scanner.c) though there doesnt seem to be a
I have one sitting next to my computer, and it works...
Try to set the debug environment variable before you run scanimage:
export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255
scanimage /tmp/scan.log 21
The file /tmp/scan.log will contain information about what the
backend is
doing. What surprises me is that the
Thanks, it turns out I had this rpm2tgz tool already.
I used rpm2tgz and then pkgtool to install the precompiled iscan binary.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my system (see below). It's not linking to
shared libraries on my system properly. Creating symbolic links, e.g.
in /usr/lib, doesn't
Remove everything but the one line that says epson (you may want to
rename the original file and create a new one with just this one
line), then run the test with the DEBUG variable again. From what
you've posted so far it's clear that the EPSON backend never gets
called. There usually is
