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From: Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:50:35
Message-Id: 297ED5EA-9469-4B29-9E74-BAD3CA5F64A5@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem by Philip Webb
1 > On 2018-07-18, at 04:16, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > (3) I can scan without problems using Mint Xfce (on another partition),
4 > so it's not a hardware problem.
5 >
6 > (4) 'lsusb' lists "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0418: 013b Seiko Epson Corp".
7 >
8 > (5) the 'epkowa' driver is the latest version : a download from
9 > 'support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan.php?model=perfection-v550&version=1.0.1'
10 > gets the same compressed files as are already installed (same sizes).
11 >
12 > (6) the output from 'strace' is at
13 > http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/xsane-trace.d1 .
14
15 I think you should look at the /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf file and make modifications if necessary. You should compare it to the Mint partition. And you should do the same for other configuration files like /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
16
17 >
18 > (9) Vuescan is a possible alternative : does anyone have experience ?
19
20 You want this to work with SANE because major apps like GIMP only support SANE IIRC.
21
22 Andrew