[sane-devel] [Fwd: Re: [lp.epson] Epson CX5400]

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

If you use the "usb 0x4b8 0x808" syntax in epson.conf, it is not 
necessary to
add the vendor and product IDs as modules parameters. libusb will take 
care of
"talking" to the scanner. The USB scanner module is not necessary.

Karl Heinz

On Dec 15, 2003, at 2:21 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> Here is a user confirmation that the Epson Stylus CX5400 (MF device) 
> scans with the "epson" backend.
>
>    Till
>
> From: sehh@altered.com (Dimitris)
> Date: December 15, 2003 12:09:02 PM EST
> Subject: Re: [lp.epson] Epson CX5400
>
>
> In article <bqoa9b$khe$1@poblano.linuxprinting.org>, 
> fred_sanders@hotmail.com
> (Fred Sanders) writes:
>>
>> I have the Epson Stylus CX5400 working for both printing and 
>> scanning.	I'm
>> running Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2129.nptl kernel).  I had to add the
> following
>> entry in my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file:  usb 0x4b8 0x808
>>
>> Xsane now works for scanning after that fix.
>
> I can confirm that this works. My 5400 scans fine once i added
> the following line in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf
>
> usb 0x4b8 0x808
>
> then run:
>
> modprobe scanner vendor=0x4b8 product=0x808
>
> that did the trick. i can use xsane, or gimp to scan
> without any problems. its quite fast too!
>
>