[ALUG] Any Sane experts out there?

[cl at isbd.net]

Sane as in scanners on Linux that is, you don't have to be actually
sane!  :-)

I have an Epson V700 scanner which is listed as supported by the
sane-epson backend.  However I'm having a hard time getting the thing
recognised by anything at all.

It is connected and functioning because "sane-find-scanner"
successfully finds it and lists the right parameters:-

    found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012c [EPSON
    Scanner]) at libusb:7:2

So it's there and connected to the USB OK.  But that's as far as I can
get and the Sane documentation isn't very forthcoming on what I have
to do next.  Should it "just work" now or is there a configuration
file that needs editing?  Nothing in the Sane documentation seems to
tell me what's needed.

The above "sane-find-scanner" also says "Try scanimage -L and read the
backend's manpage.".  I've done that, "scanimage -L" doesn't detect
any scanners and the sane.epson man page leaves me none the wiser
really.

I have tried adding the following line to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf:-

    usb 0x4b8 0x12c

but it hasn't helped.

I'm stuck, what do I need to do to actually get some sane front end to
see the scanner via the back-end?

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)