[ubuntu] [SOLVED] Epson Stylus SX205 - cannot install/use printer and scanner

[Melodic_BM]

Hi,
see my answer at Launchpad and let me know wether it worked or not

[Kaho]

Hello,

I've just bought an Epson Stylus SX205.
Printing was quickly made available by using the DX4800 drivers instead but scanning took me some time to work out.

Here is a solution I found on a french website and it worked great !

Open a terminal :

lsusb | grep -i epson

You should have something similar to this :

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04b8:0849 Seiko Epson Corp.

Note the 04b8:0849 numbers, then,

sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf

Look for the line

# usb 0x??? 0x???

Replace them by the numbers you've noted before : 0x48b 0x849
and uncomment the line ( by removing the # )

Uncomment also these two lines :

# usb /dev/usbscanner0
# usb /dev/usb/scanner0

Then, you will notice that Xsane only recognizes your scanner if you launch it as ROOT, but it is not recommanded.

Instead, just modify udev rules :

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules

( file may be empty )

And paste this :

# Epson Stylus SX205
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0849", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"

Then, restart udev :

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

( You may also need to add yourself in the scanner group... see groups and membership options in gnome control center)

And voilà !

Hope it will work for other SX205 users too

[stormtrooprdave]

A million thank yous! This worked perfectly!

I used a pizza menu to test out the scanner so now I'll never to hunt round for missing menus when I get the munchies lol

[Melodic_BM]

Can you please try it with the iscan packages I postet in my last post? Would be nice to know if that packages work with sx205 as well

[stormtrooprdave]

Originally Posted by Melodic_BM Can you please try it with the iscan packages I postet in my last post? Would be nice to know if that packages work with sx205 as well

Those packages are 386 and I have 64 bit so maybe someone else can try them

[Kango_V]

Anyone got ant pointers about getting an Epson PX800FW scanner working?
I've gone through this thread and tried installing iscan doing the changes for UDEV, but still no joy.

xsane runs, but when I click Acquire, it says "Failed to start scanner. Operation not supported".

iscan says "Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanners's status."

Not sure what to do now. And I'm on AMD64.

daz

[Smurf1979]

Hi

I have followed the instruktions in this thread and i got the printer runing but i can't install the scanner when i trie to install "iscan_2.12.0-4_i386.deb" it opens packe manger but i says "error: dependency is not satisfiable: libltdl3" and i have searched fore libltdl and all there are is libltdl7, what sould i do?

[stormtrooprdave]

All of a sudden I find myself unable to print. I am getting a message saying Printer 'Stylus-SX2002' may not be connected.

When I look on the cups page on http://localhost:631/printers/ it says the following:

Stylus-SX2002 "Unable to open device "hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4b8_849_4B4C4E4B3032393760_if1_printer_ noserial": Permission denied"

[Kaho]

Haha, I wanted to print something a week ago and I got this damn " Printer 'Stylus-SX205' may not be connected " too !!

I found it very weird because printing worked fine before and couldn't determine if this problem was due to the scan trick I gave you before ( I don't remember if I tried to print something after these modifications... )

Anyways, I have just found a solution, again, on the french ubuntu forum :

Apparently, it has something to do with /dev/usb/lp0 being attributed to the 'scanner' group instead of the 'lp' group...

With a simple

sudo chgrp lp /dev/usb/lp0

it returned to normal !
( the tip in the french thread says that this modification works if the printer is connected to the usb lp0 port...and that may be the case in most configurations )

After that, printing AND scanning with Epson SX205 were available on my Ubuntu Intrepid !

I came back to this thread because I wanted to ask you if you have faced the same problem... and yes you have !

So, I hope this can help you now




To Smurf1979 : you should follow the instructions in my previous post instead( and it worked for me and stormtrooprdave ! )
You know, I tried to install these iscan packages before, but with no success because I got the same dependency error ...





As for the Kango_V's PX800 problem, sorry but I have no clue how to make it work... ( a guy posted something a month before about this on the french ubuntu forum but it is not resolved yet... )

[Smurf1979]

Yes thank tou it worked I don't know what happedt but the first time i tryed it noting happend when i entered sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf but this time it did and now both printer and scanner works.