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

[rizitis]

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

I did it but does not work for me in my 9.10 system
So if someone have the same problem here is what I did:
I install from synaptic libsane extras
Dint work again
After that I did

sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/epson2.conf

and I change the file like this

# For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command
# usb <product ID> <device ID>
# e.g.:
usb 0x4b8 0x849  <---- here

At list I can run xsane as root now
I have an epson SX205

[rizitis]

just run xsane successfully as user (no sudo)
well

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

and add at the file:

# Epson SX-205
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0849", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

restart SX205



now you can run xsane as user, maybe when click to shutdown xsane a message window open about permissions but I click close 2 times, however.

[Kaho]

Thanks a lot rizitis for your tip about udev !!
I just upgraded to Lucid and found my scanner didn't work anymore with the line I gave earlier in this thread for libsane rules...

Now, with Ubuntu 10.04, Espon Stylus SX205 works out of the box with its driver and scanner is also ok with these modifications