[sane-devel] Epson V200 Scanner, 64Bit Ubuntu

[Patrick Scheibe]

Hi,

I want to use an Epson V200 Photo USB Scanner on my Linux Box:

Ubuntu 8.04
64 Bit
2.6.24-23-generic Kernel

When I understood this right then I need 2 things: the epkowa-backend
and a proprietary plug-in which is only available as binary under
http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000500/hpg000000442.htm.
The backend is included in the libsane-extras package and the epkowa.c
file seems similar to the one included in my distribution. Per accident
I stumbled over the README in the doc directory saying:

>>>>>
The following scanners require the use of a proprietary module to work
with the epkowa backend...
<snip>
You can download the module and firmware files from the Epson Avasys
website at:
             <http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html>
 The module and firmware files are distributed in the form of an RPM
package;
 you'll need to install the rpm and cpio Debian packages to extract the
content
 of the RPM file:
  - rpm2cpio iscan-plugin-....rpm > foo.cpio
  - cpio -i --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames < foo.cpio
 The module and firmware files will be available in the usr/lib/iscan
and
 usr/share/iscan directories, relative to the current directory. You
need
 to copy the module files to /usr/lib/iscan and the firmware file to
 /usr/share/iscan.
<<<<<<<

This is what I did but the scanner isn't found with scanimage -L. I
checked after running ldconfig whether the libs are included in the
lib-cache but I couldn't find it.
I'm afraid that the proprietary libraries need to be 64bit libs.

Does anyone has a clue for me.

Cheers
Patrick