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On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 170504 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo, |
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> > having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint. |
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> > I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives, |
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> > & listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg. |
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> > They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ |
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> > with names beginning with 'v550'. |
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> > It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan', |
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> > a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends |
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> > ( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it), |
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> > plus some further data files + a lot of dox. |
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> I've tried 3 methods without success : |
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> (1) install Iscan via Portage & copy the other files in the .deb ; |
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> (2) copy all the files in the .deb (apart from dox) (list checked) ; |
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> (3) try to run the install.sh script. |
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> None of them succeeds in getting the scanner recognised. |
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> There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : |
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> I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 |
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> & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. |
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> Any suggestions are very welcome. |
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If you are going to change it, isn't there a HP device out there that Just |
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Works™ with the hplip and potentially the hplip-plugin packages? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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