Ron-- I've got VirtualBox working--mostly. But I've run into a problem that many seem to have run into and some solved, but so far I haven't been able to. I can't get my usb ports mounted. I'm running Intrepid Ibex and VB 2.1.0. I1, and keep getting the message:VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND. The service might not be installed on the host computer.
There are all sorts of solutions involving Gutsy Gibbon--editing the/etc/init.d/mountdebsubfs.sh file. But mine doesn't look like the one they list. You seem to have yours running. What did you do? 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
