[sane-devel] Epson Stylus CX4200

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Nov 30 18:52 Chris AtLee wrote (shortened):
>> ... if the "usblp" module is claiming the device and won't let
>> sane access it.
>
> See the
> "Epson CX3200's scanner isn't detected with recent"
> thread on the sane-devel mailing list:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-September/014721.html
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-September/014727.html
>
> If you have Suse Linux 10.0 see
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/09/jsmeix_scanner-setup-100.html
> "USB access conflicts for Epson all-in-one devices"
> The updates of "sane" and "iscan" are also available at
> http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/index.html

FTR, the upcoming release of sane-backends-1.0.18 and iscan-1.18.0
should fix this "usblp claiming device" problem as well.  The CX4200,
however, will not be supported out of the box.  You will still need
that

  usb 0x04b8 0x0820

line in your epson.conf.

HTH,
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