It was a struggle, but I got my Epson 4490 working in Dapper. Now I've upped to Hardy and I've lost my scanner again.
Here's the output from: id: lusb; sane-find-scanner: ls -l /dev/bus/usb/004/002
michael@michael-desktop:~$ id
uid=1000(michael) gid=1000(michael) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29( audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),106(lpadmin), 110(scanner),112(admin),1000(michael)
michael@michael-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:0119 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 4490 Photo
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo sane-find-scanner
# 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 kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0119 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:004:002
# 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.
michael@michael-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/004/002
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root scanner 189, 385 2008-06-07 08:44 /dev/bus/usb/004/002
Any suggestions as it's a great scanner when working.
Even Vuescan can see it but can't open it!
Mike
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