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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : no success
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 23:28:00
Message-Id: 20170505232747.GA1689@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo by Philip Webb
1 170504 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > I want to get my new Epson V550 working on Gentoo,
3 > having successfully installed Epson's driver on Mint.
4 >
5 > I installed the Gentoo pkg 'dpkg', which handles .deb archives,
6 > & listed the content of the 3 .deb files in the Epson driver pkg.
7 > They cb viewed at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/
8 > with names beginning with 'v550'.
9 >
10 > It appears that the pkg installs a utility 'iscan',
11 > a Sane plugin called 'epkowa', which is not available via Sane-backends
12 > ( /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap doesn't list it),
13 > plus some further data files + a lot of dox.
14
15 I've tried 3 methods without success :
16 (1) install Iscan via Portage & copy the other files in the .deb ;
17 (2) copy all the files in the .deb (apart from dox) (list checked) ;
18 (3) try to run the install.sh script.
19
20 None of them succeeds in getting the scanner recognised.
21
22 There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 :
23 I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600
24 & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin.
25
26 Any suggestions are very welcome.
27
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