[sane-devel] Epson Photo 4490 Scanner

Claude Sutton claudesutton at suttonmachine.com
Thu Jul 5 12:20:31 UTC 2007



Sudo lshw shows everything in my system is 32 bit other than multimedia,
which shows 64 bit.

The machine is a Thinkpad T60P with a T7600 duo core.

Ubuntu 6.06 

kernal:  2.6.15-28-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 10 09:56:30 UTC 2007 i686

CSSJR


Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp):

> Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:
> 
> > I installed iscan-2.7.0-1.tar.gz
> >
> > So I have to install the RPM package as well?
> 
> Yes, you have to install iscan-plugin-gt-x750-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm.
> 
> > I don't think Ubuntu supports rpm's.
> 
> That's easily fixed with alien.  You can use
> 
>    sudo alien --scripts --install iscan-plugin-gt-x750-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm
> 
> to install.  Doing the same for the iscan RPM has been reported to
> "work" by several people but EPSON AVASYS doesn't test that.  Just
> make sure you use the --scripts option.  If you don't you're in for
> trouble as you'll have to do a lot manually yourself ;-)
> 
> One more point, seeing you compiled from source, you probably didn't
> use --prefix=/usr at ./configure time.  This _could_ be a cause of
> trouble.  Again EPSON AVASYS doesn't test that.
> 
> Finally, your machine is 32-bit Intel, right?  The plugin won't work
> on 64-bit machines (unless you run a mixed 32/64-bit setup and even
> then it gets ugly).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> > CSSJR
> >
> > Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp):
> >
> >> Claude Sutton <claudesutton at suttonmachine.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I followed Olaf's instructions and after the reinstall, no contact with the
> >> > scanner.
> >> >
> >> > So I ran sane-find-scanner and:
> >> >
> >> >> sane-find-scanner returns the following and I have no idea what to do
> >> >> with
> >> >> the information.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0c88, product=0x17da) at libusb:006:002
> >> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0483 [STMicroelectronics], product=0x2016
> >> >> [Biometric Coprocessor]) at libusb:004:003
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I have an Epson Photo 4490 scanner.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to try next?
> >> 
> >> Have you installed the non-free i386-only iscan-plugin-gt-x750 package?
> >> Without it, the scanner is not supported by the epkowa backend which
> >> comes as part of iscan.
> >> 
> >> Hope this helps,
> -- 
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