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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I am having trouble with
my new Epson V370. I have not been able to successfully apply the
advice that has been recently reported working under a different
version of Linux.<br>
<br>
I installed iscan-2.30 and iscan-data-1.36 from the
iscan-perfection-v370-bundle-1.0.0.x64.rpm.tar.gz from Epson. <br>
<br>
I used YaST/scanner to configure the scanner. It presents two
items in its list:<br>
epkowa Epson (unknown model) at epkowa:usb:003:004<br>
Not Configured: EPSON Perfection V37/V370 USB scanner
(vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x014a [EPSON Perfecttion
V37/V370]) at libusb:003:004<br>
<br>
If I attempt to edit the second to configure it, I get a popup
message "Possibly Problematic Driver The epkowa driver may cause
problems on 64-bit x86_64 architecture". Continuing, it does not
configure that entry.<br>
<br>
If I attempt to edit the first to configure it, I get the same
popup message.<br>
<br>
When I run xsane from the command line, I get a popup "scanning
for devices" which stays up for around 30sec. No windows come up,
but xsane does not complete either. It is still running but
without a graphical interface. If I turn the scanner off, xsane
then completes and I get the new command prompt.<br>
<br>
I have tried the "Image scan! for linux" that is now installed
from iscan. It does not give a graphical interface. Right-clicking
on that gives me a popup "Could not send command to scanner. Check
the scanner's status".<br>
<br>
The command "sane-find-scanner" gives:<br>
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x014a [EPSON
Perfection V37/V370]) at libusb:003:005<br>
<br>
The command "scanimage -L" delays for about 30 seconds before
reporting "device `epkowa:usb:003:005' is a Epson (unknown model)
flatbed scanner"<br>
<br>
The command "iscan" sits silently for about 60 sec before
completing and I get a new command prompt. The scanner does
nothing during this time.<br>
<br>
The command "scanimage -d epkowa -v >/tmp/file.jpg" behaves the
same way. So also does the command </font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">"scanimage -d epkowa:usb:003:005 -v
>/tmp/file.jpg" <br>
<br>
Nothing that I do from Linux will elicit a response from the
scanner.<br>
<br>
I have successfully got the scanner to work under MS-Windows, so
the hardware is fine. I could not find a file "esfwdd.bin" that Winfried
referred to in her email, either in the files that Epson supplies
for Linux, nor in the files that were installed when I tried under
MS.<br>
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Graham<br>
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