[sane-devel] crash recovery mode, 10k monkeys based :-)

[Gene Heskett]

Hi folks;

I *did* have the epson iscan, version 1.4.0 working as a backend 
before a power failure, human induced 8-[, trashed my / partition.  
I pulled the wrong power cord while shutting this room down for 2 
weeks, intending to leave the computer running as it has about a 2 
week supply of seti@home work units with 100 in the cache.

So I had to fdisk the drive, re-arranging things, and moving some 
dirs to new partitions on an even bigger drive.  I re-installed 
rh8.0 which wouldn't let me do the partitions the way I wanted, so 
I did that after the fact.  Then I found that my carefully done 
amanda backups weren't complete, apparently missing anything that 
had even an odor of an old lock on it.  The tar version is 1.13-25.

I've never been able to fully compile the epson iscan package, the 
frontend always dies while looking for some obscure __cxx_XXXXX set 
of files that still aren't on my system even after I'd told it to 
install everything.  But it does compile the libraries first, so 
they are installable, and thats what I've been doing for at least a 
year.

In this manner I was getting a requestor at startup from xsane that 
asks me which backend I want to use and I can run the plustek 
backend or the epson backend.  GT-something or other.

Is anyone else doing this with an epson 1250u?  And if so, can you 
snip and post here the revelant parts of your 

/usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf file?

Mine doesn't look right, and I can't seem to make it work again.

Many thanks in advance.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly