Thank you, Ron. For the epson scanner I just installed VirtualBox and it works fine from there.
My Centro is my combo phone & PDA. I can't hotsync the Palm Desktop (=Zire 21) in Ubuntu. There are all sorts of forum entries and gabble about it and some people have apparently been able to work it out, but nothing has seemed to work for me. I couldn't ge my chess programs to install in VBox. Error msg: not a valid W32 exec file. (Or some such wording) Warner Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org ________________________________ From: Rion D'Luz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:29:54 PM Subject: Re: Welcome to the list On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Warner White wrote: > Hi all-- > >I would like to switch completely to Ubuntu, but I need Quicken for a week or >two more, Altho xen is my virtualizer of choice, I've been playing around with virtualbox and am surprised at its ease of use; not that I'd want to, but there are a lot of ppl installing windows clients on them for just such reasons as yours. Maybe, perhaps w/out too much pain, you could try that as a solution to dual-boot'ing. >I can't get my Centro to hotsync in Ubuntu, What is a "Centro"? >and I can't get my Epson Perfection 3170 to work with Ubuntu I have an Epson Perfection 4490 that just worked flawlessly under xsane, both on CentOS5 and Ubuntu8.10. apt-get install libsane libsane-extras apt-get install sane sane-utils xsane xsane-common vi /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf and added: usb 0x04b8 0x0119 => Connect and power up the scanner. Apr 18 11:21:21 localhost kernel: [17264269.084000] usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 => make sure the scanner is detected. In a terminal windows run sane-find-scanner it should report : found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0119 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:006 The address at the end of the line will probably be different for you, depending on where you connect. If san e-find-scanner can't find a scanner at all, stop. You have to solve that problem first. scanimage -L scanimage is a command-line interface to control image acquisition devices such as flatbed scanners or cameras. The device is controlled via command-line options Note: CentOS repos has a nice app called iscan (Avasys_Iscan - which i hardly ever use, but seems handy) NAME Image Scan! for Linux - scanner frontend for SANE DESCRIPTION iscan (Image Scan! for Linux) provides a graphical user-interface to control EPSON scan- ners. It allows the previewing and scanning of images. iscan can be invoked either from the command-line or through the GIMP image manipulation program. When run from the command line, iscan acts as a stand-alone program that saves acquired images in PNM, PNG or JPEG format. Alternatively acquired images can be sent directly to a printer, provided your print system handles PNG natively. CUPS and Photo Image Print Sys- tem, versions 1.3.1 and later, do this. LPRng and other LPD based printer systems may need a little help. Refer to your print system’s documentation for more information on how to set this up. When run as a GIMP plugin, the images are passed to the GIMP for further pro- cessing. iscan accesses EPSON image acquisition devices through the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) interface. Installing it from RPM was a 1-step painless experience. On ubuntu however, you have to jump thru some hoops: => get your Epson driver package http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html Answer their questionnaire then goto the downloads area and get the rpms chmod 0666 /proc/bus/usb/005/002 (or whatever busID your scanner is on) => convert the .rpm files to deb packages In a terminal window change to the directory where the two downloaded driver files are stored then: sudo alien iscan_2.5.0-1_i386.rpm sudo alien iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-2_i386.rpm This should produce the two .deb packages: iscan_2.5.0-1_i386.deb iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-2_i386.deb ./alien iscan-2.6.0-0.c2.i386.rpm (Note below: i had errors w/2.6 until i installed 2.5 first) Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package iscan: postinst postrm preinst prerm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. iscan_2.6.0-1_i386.deb generated alien iscan-plugin-gt-x750-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package iscan-plugin-gt-x750: postrm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-2_i386.deb generated => Install the two packages from a terminal window with dpkg, doing the main iscan package first. sudo dpkg i- scan_2.5.0-1_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-x750_1.0.0-2_i386.deb => If the main iscan package will not install cleanly because it reports file conflicts with certain sane-related packages previously installed, just go ahead and force dpkg to overwrite the problem files: sudo dpkg i- --force-overwrite iscan_2.5.0-1_i386.deb dpkg -i --force-overwrite iscan_2.6.0-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 197485 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking iscan (from iscan_2.6.0-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.la', which is also in package libsane-extras dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1', which is also in package libsane-extras Setting up iscan (2.6.0-1) ... WOW:: iscan runs and pulls up a cool GUI So, if all of the above makes too little sense, you can go thru the same process I did via forums: Welcome to the club of people who own a 4990 and cannot fully use it under linux. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-124331.html https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/24946 also http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-124202.html Or, just let me know and I'll archive all my .debs and send them to you:) Hope this helps, Rion
