Marcin Pisz
October 18th, 2009, 03:28 AM
I have a problem with my Epson scanner:confused:
I have just installed version 9.1 Beta on my computer to try out for a couple of weeks before the final version comes out. This will give me time to evaluate the software before my hard drive comes in from repair. I am running the 64-bit version of the software. I have installed drivers for the Epson perfection scanner 4490. I downloaded the 64-bit version of the drivers from Avasys. These are designed for version 8.10 and later. They already come as deb packages. I simply downloaded and installed both packages and I can only get the scanner to work perfectly if I run the Iscan software that gets installed with the driver using sudo from the commandline. Both Xsane and the proprietary software cannot access the scanner if I run it the normal way from the menu. If anybody has any suggestions of how to make this work, and have used this software on the distribution please let me know. It would also be great if this bug got fixed before the final release of the software.
This is completely a side note that maybe should not be stated in this thread. But I'm doing it anyway, I wish Ubunu installed the proprietary drivers for the scanner the same way it's able to install NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card.
To be totally off-topic this is the first version of this distribution that the 1.85 NVIDIA drivers do not install properly. After endlessly searching the Internet I found the solution and it simply involves adding the following line to the X. Windows configuration file under the screen section.
Device "Default Device"
it's also interesting to note that if I install version 1.73 of the software the driver seems to work fine. Or at least as fine as a dove or those on my system. I have a dual monitor system with identical to monitors, and ever since he ever received the system the distribution cannot recognize one of the monitors. It sees the monitor but I have to acquire and use the EDID file data generated from the other monitor and forced the driver to see the other monitor as being identical to the first one. I do this by using the following command
Device Section
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/IIncedid.bin; DFP-1:/etc/X11/IIncedid.bin"
If I don't do this, it thinks that one of the monitors is a generic monitor with a 640 x 480 resolution. I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem on the monitor, but when I boot into Microsoft Vista I did not get this problem. Windows seems to recognize both monitors automatically. Since I have a workaround I don't think I need any advice on this problem, I'm just making other people aware of it and of the solution. If you're going to use the solution above make sure you put the sign at the end of the section.
Any help on the permissions would be great thanks.
I have just installed version 9.1 Beta on my computer to try out for a couple of weeks before the final version comes out. This will give me time to evaluate the software before my hard drive comes in from repair. I am running the 64-bit version of the software. I have installed drivers for the Epson perfection scanner 4490. I downloaded the 64-bit version of the drivers from Avasys. These are designed for version 8.10 and later. They already come as deb packages. I simply downloaded and installed both packages and I can only get the scanner to work perfectly if I run the Iscan software that gets installed with the driver using sudo from the commandline. Both Xsane and the proprietary software cannot access the scanner if I run it the normal way from the menu. If anybody has any suggestions of how to make this work, and have used this software on the distribution please let me know. It would also be great if this bug got fixed before the final release of the software.
This is completely a side note that maybe should not be stated in this thread. But I'm doing it anyway, I wish Ubunu installed the proprietary drivers for the scanner the same way it's able to install NVIDIA drivers for my graphics card.
To be totally off-topic this is the first version of this distribution that the 1.85 NVIDIA drivers do not install properly. After endlessly searching the Internet I found the solution and it simply involves adding the following line to the X. Windows configuration file under the screen section.
Device "Default Device"
it's also interesting to note that if I install version 1.73 of the software the driver seems to work fine. Or at least as fine as a dove or those on my system. I have a dual monitor system with identical to monitors, and ever since he ever received the system the distribution cannot recognize one of the monitors. It sees the monitor but I have to acquire and use the EDID file data generated from the other monitor and forced the driver to see the other monitor as being identical to the first one. I do this by using the following command
Device Section
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/IIncedid.bin; DFP-1:/etc/X11/IIncedid.bin"
If I don't do this, it thinks that one of the monitors is a generic monitor with a 640 x 480 resolution. I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem on the monitor, but when I boot into Microsoft Vista I did not get this problem. Windows seems to recognize both monitors automatically. Since I have a workaround I don't think I need any advice on this problem, I'm just making other people aware of it and of the solution. If you're going to use the solution above make sure you put the sign at the end of the section.
Any help on the permissions would be great thanks.