[gentoo-user] new scanner : partial success

[Philip Webb]

I bought an Epson V550 scanner & have been trying it out.

No joy on Gentoo : Xsane can't find it & various ploys fail.

I also have Mint Xfce 17.2 installed for this kind of occasion.
Epson offers a driver in .deb format for Mint, which I've downloaded.
After copying it to the Mint partition & following the install instruction,
Xsane there does indeed find the scanner & starts up.
I succeeded in scanning  1  test image :
it's much much quicker than my 2003 Epson & the image is quite adequate.

It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob
& that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item
(the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen).
So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on Gentoo ?
-- I can reboot into Mint whenever I want to scan something,
but anything which cb done via another distro sb available with Gentoo too.

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