[sane-devel] no devices available

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

"George Herzog" <gaherzog at gmail.com> writes:

> I recently did a urpmi.update and now I cannot use my epson perfection
> 1640su scanner. I have only one of each: libsane1, sane backends, and
> xsane installed. The scanner was always detected and worked well
> before the update. any assistance will be very much appreciated.

Does sane-find-scanner list the device?
If so, what does scanimage -L say?
Does trying this as a regular user or as root make a difference?
SCSI or USB?
If USB, does lsusb list it?
If SCSI, was it powered on when you booted?  Does it show in the dmesg output?
Distribution?  Version?  Architecture?

Hope that helps,
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