[sane-devel] Epson 3170 in Kubuntu

[Adrian Jadic]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 18:48, you wrote:

> If you have the plugin installed, it ought to work with other SANE
> frontends as well.  But wait!  You run on AMD64, right?  It won't work
> with 64bit.  You will need to run all your SANE stuff in 32bit mode.

AMD 3000+ 32 bit.
Other sane frontends like kooka and Gwenviw do not work. This is basically my 
big mystery. They did work in suse 9.3 but with 10.0 and 10.1 they don't 
work . only Iscan can fire up this scanner. Now I found the same situation 
in Kubuntu as well. I had so much trouble with this scanner that I was 
really thinking to sell it on ebay and get a Canon Lide or smthg since I 
don't use the film feature anyway nor have I used the high resolution enough 
to justify this unit.

But let me first thank you for trying to help me with this., I have been 
crying about this issue in all possible forums, reported bugs and so on. I 
even returned a purchased suse 10.0 on this issue (among others) and nobody 
gave it any attention.


> > So now kooka displays that small window with "choosing device" and the
> > Epson 3170 is listed correctly.
> > But when I press "preview" or "scan" nothing happens.
>
> Hmm, that's weird.  If listed in the window to choose a device, the
> backend did see the device allright.  Could you take a look at the
> debugging output?
>
>   $ SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=50 iscan 2> debug.log

I am attaching the output as requested. I also did one with kooka and I see 
that it is different so I am attaching it as well

But, shouldn't this unit work just by installing libsane and libsane-extras? 
I see that libsane-extras has epkowa. Bottom line which file does actually 
contain the driver?

Thank you

>
> The output will end up in the debug.log file.
>
> > Thank you,
> > A Jadic
> >
> > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 00:54, you wrote:
> >> Adrian Jadic <jadic at dallnet.net> writes:
> >> > I have trouble using the Epson Perfection 3170 Photo in Kubuntu 6.06
> >> >
> >> > Kooka and scanimage recognise the scanner. However when I try to scan
> >> > I am getting the following errors:
> >> > =================
> >> > ~$ scanimage -L
> >> > device `epson:libusb:001:004' is a Epson  flatbed scanner
> >>
> >> This scanner is NOT supported by the epson backend.  It is also not
> >> supported by the plustek or snapscan backends.  If you want to use
> >> this scanner, you will have to use the epkowa backend together with a
> >> non-free binary-only plugin.  Some distributions now include this
> >> backend but the plugin is probably only available via:
> >>
> >>   http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html
> >>
> >> > ~$ scanimage
> >> > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> >> > ~$ kooka
> >> > libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor
> >> > desc) libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name
> >> > nor desc) ScimInputContextPlugin()
> >> > ~ScimInputContextPlugin()
> >> > ~$
> >> > =================
> >> > This happens in both root and user.
> >> > Can anyone help me get further here? This scanner works fine in SUSE
> >> > 9.3
> >> >
> >> > metricus
> >> > AMD 3000+, 1GB RAM, Kubuntu 6.06
> >>
> >> The plugin is only available for i386 ...
> >>
> >> Hope this helps,
>
> As always, hope this helps,
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