Scanner Epson Perfection 3490 Photo

[efreddi]

Hi All,

this evening I have been able to set-up xsane to manage my scanner Epson Perfection 3490 Photo.
Sorry if I'm not very precise, but I'm a novice of Linux

Some detail:

the scanner has hinted by sane-find-scanner, see below the output:

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# 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 [EPSON], product=0x0122 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:002
# 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.

So the scanner has been found, but this is not enough.
Then looking in internet I found that my scanner is supported by snapscan

http://snapscan.sourceforge.net/

Then I followed the instructions and:
- in the file /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf I added the lines:

# Epson Perfection 3490
usb 0x04b8 0x0122


- I changed the permissions for the files in /proc/bus/usb/001/ to enable read/writing for group and other



That's all, now xsane detect the scanner and it works fine.
I hope that this will help other people.
Best regards


Elia Freddi

PS: my pc is a Dell Latitude C600