[ALUG] Any Sane experts out there?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 03-Nov-06 cl at isbd.net wrote:
> 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.

Hi Chris,
I'm not seeing a solution to your problem (actually it's not
clear what the specific problem is), but try having a look at

  man sane-epson

which may help!

Good luck,
Ted.

> 
> 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)
> 
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