[sane-devel] Epson Perfetion 2480 scanner

Michael Polenske mpolenske@hpce.nec.com
Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:45:12 +0200


Hi Oliver,

> it seems the scanner really uses the SnapScan protocol. It shouldn't 
> be too hard to get it to work with the snapscan backend.

Hey, that sounds rellay good !

> If you've installed SANE from source you only need to edit snapscan.h,
[...]

Ok, I will try it this afternoon.

> For some strange reason the scanner uses a different ID string in the 
> third log you've attached ("EPSON Scanner"). Did you change something 
> in the meantime (e.g. manually tried to load a firmware file, 
> powercycled the scanner)?

I got a bus-timeout during xscanimage, so I powercycled the scanner - but this should change the ID ?

Ciao, Michael