[sane-devel] Re: iscan, kernel 2.6.5 & Gimp 2* ?

[Adam Bogacki]

Thanks - where does one download  < iscan-1.10.0-3.tar.gz >  from ? 
Google gave one hit by that name.

At the moment sane & xsane are not recognising my Epson 640U and I'm 
reading the 'man' files.

Adam.


Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

>Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz> writes:
>
>Hi Adam,
>
>Sorry for the belated reply.  We had a company summer break all of
>8/13-8/16.
>
>  
>
>>Hi, I just thought I'd mention that apart from apparently needing
>>'libesmod.so.1, I'm using kernel 2.6.5 and running Gimp 2.* ... I
>>noticed something somewhere that it might be a problem for iscan to
>>run with this combination.
>>    
>>
>
>iscan does not work with GIMP 2.* yet, but kernel 2.6.5 should be OK.
>Using 2.6.7 myself.
>
>  
>
>>Are there any other options for getting a scanner working with 2.6.5
>>& Gimp 2 ?
>>    
>>
>
>Install iscan and use the xsane plugin for the GIMP.  IIRC, it works
>fine with GIMP 2.*.  Note that xsane ought to work with the epkowa
>backend from iscan.
>
>  
>
>>What pkg does 'libesdmod.so.1' come in ?
>>    
>>
>
>iscan-1.10.0-3.i386.rpm, iscan-1.10.0-3.tar.gz :-)
>
>It's called libesmod.so and when doing a `make install` it should end
>up in $(libdir)/libesmod.so.1.1.0 with libesmod.so and libesmod.so.1
>symlinks in $(libdir) pointing to it.
># $(libdir) is probably /usr/local/lib/ in your case.
>BTW, it's in the non-free/ directory.
>
>HTH,
>
>  
>
>>Adam Bogacki.
>>Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>
>>          Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>                    Thanks Olaf, but see below. I'm running unstable.
>>    
>>
>>
>>     Me, I'm running testing (upgraded just about daily ;-).
>>
>>  
>>
>>                                        Tux:~# apt-get install libpng-dev
>>[snip]
>>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  libpng-dev: Depends: libpng3 (= 1.2.1-1.1.woody.7) but 1.2.5.0-7
>>is to be installed
>>E: Broken packages
>>Tux:~#
>>      
>>
>>
>>     Sorry about that.  I made a mental note to check which libpng-dev you
>>would need but forgot to do so.
>>
>>The thing is that libpng versioning is/was a bit of a mess upstream
>>and that reflected in the Debian packages.  The libpng-dev package is
>>provided by several packages, including libpng10-dev and libpng12-dev,
>>perhaps there is/was even a libpng2-dev and libpng3-dev.  :-(
>>
>>>From the looks of the debian/pool/ is seems that:
>>
>>  libpng10-dev == libpng2-dev
>>  libpng12-dev == libpng3-dev
>>
>>I'm using libpng12-dev.  You're running unstable, so should probably
>>be fine using the same.
>>
>>BTW, if you want to use iscan as a GIMP plugin, make sure you have
>>gdk-imlib1-dev installed and for libusb (required with USB scanners
>>for kernels >= 2.6.3) make sure you have a version more recent than
>>0.1.6.  libusb-dev from testing is fine, so your version from unstable
>>should be to.
>>
>>HTH,
>>    
>>