etitor
September 14th, 2005, 03:19 PM
OK, so this beast sits now on my desktop. And I have to use it. Is this guy going to be my return path to Windows?
I run Hoary 64 on an AMD K8.
For background information about Epson 4990 and Linux (abstract: Epson 4990 does work under Linux) you can see this:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-June/013814.html
and this:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-May/013674.html
The 4990 may be too new to be known to Sane and it is not in the directly-supported scanners list: www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON
But Sane seems to support the 4990 through one of its external backends, epkowa. See:
www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA
Once the scanner is connected,
lsusb says:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:012a Seiko Epson Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
So I know the USB system knows the scanner is there.
scanimage -L says:
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
sane-find-scanner says:
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
# Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
# If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x012a) at libusb:003:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
# necessary.
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices says (among other things):
T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=012a Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=EPSON
S: Product=EPSON Scanner
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
I know Vuescan supports the 4990:
www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#epson
So I downloaded Vuescan but it won't run. It says:
error while loading shared libraries: libusb-0.1.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And XSane (v0.96) refuses to detect it ("No devices found").
Can you guys advise anything, or is it the dual-boot way only?
I run Hoary 64 on an AMD K8.
For background information about Epson 4990 and Linux (abstract: Epson 4990 does work under Linux) you can see this:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-June/013814.html
and this:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2005-May/013674.html
The 4990 may be too new to be known to Sane and it is not in the directly-supported scanners list: www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON
But Sane seems to support the 4990 through one of its external backends, epkowa. See:
www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA
Once the scanner is connected,
lsusb says:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:012a Seiko Epson Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
So I know the USB system knows the scanner is there.
scanimage -L says:
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
sane-find-scanner says:
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
# Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
# If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x012a) at libusb:003:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
# necessary.
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices says (among other things):
T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=012a Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=EPSON
S: Product=EPSON Scanner
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
I know Vuescan supports the 4990:
www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#epson
So I downloaded Vuescan but it won't run. It says:
error while loading shared libraries: libusb-0.1.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
And XSane (v0.96) refuses to detect it ("No devices found").
Can you guys advise anything, or is it the dual-boot way only?