[SOLVED] Epson V300 flatbed scanner support

[kaibob]

I wondered if anyone has gotten the Epson V300 flatbed scanner working with Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10. I checked the Avasys and Sane sites but neither shows the V300 as a supported model. In another thread, Tuxi had no success getting this scanner working.

BTW, the V300 is the successor to the V200 and is Epson's current budget flatbed scanner.

AVASYS SITE:
http://avasys.jp/hp/page000001300/hpg000001243.htm

THREAD CONTAINING TUXI'S POST
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...00#post6257709

SANE SITE
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/...&bus=any&v=&p=

[kaibob]

I just checked the Avasys site, and the V300 is now supported. Also, for the first time, Ubuntu is shown as a distribution. Sounds great

[Jonam]

I have got the V300 working using the drivers provided on the Avasys site for Ubuntu 8.04.

You need to make sure that:

- Sane and Sane-utils are installed prior to installing the Avasys drivers,
- Both the iscan and esci-interpreter packages from Avasys are installed and,
- A line with "epkowa" is added to the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file

Running "sane-find-scanner" and "scanimage -L" in a terminal window should confirm that your scanner is recognised and then running "iscan" should allow you to scan images.

I have tested both paper and transparency (film negative) scanning using iscan and they work fine.

I tried Xsane but found that it would not run previews when scanning film negatives. The error message "Failed to start scanner: invalid argument" would appear when I pressed the Preview button in Xsane.


Jonam

[bailout]

I have just tried following your method but there is a dependency problem with iscan on intrepid. It needs libltdl3 which isn't available in the 8.10 repos.

[bailout]

I installed libltdl3 using the hardy package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libltdl3

Then just followed Jonam's instructions (thanks)

The avasys iscan app works but is very basic. Xsane works as well and gives much more control.

[Tuxi]

I installed libltdl3 using the hardy package.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libltdl3

Then just followed Jonam's instructions (thanks)

The avasys iscan app works but is very basic. Xsane works as well and gives much more control.

Thanks to everyone on this thread. I was able to get the 64-bit version to work! (I used the libltdl3 package from Hardy.) Interestingly enough, running iscan from the command line gave me a message that it was unable to communicate with the scanner, but running "Image Scan!" from the graphics menu started the scanner right up

[nlz]

I need to run iscan with root permissions, can i do something about that? Maybe change the permissions of the mountpoint or something like that?

[ogger]

to install libltdl3 it asks me to remove the current software manager. Does that mean I need to remove libltdl7? Looks like a big deal. any other way to get V300 to work? [EDIT: Never mind, I might have had Synaptic open which caused a conflict !?]

[HighSide]

Hi,

Just got one of these scanners and have tried to follow this thread to get it working but when I tried to install the .deb package I got the following errors:

root@Office-desktop:/home/stuart# dpkg --install iscan_2.19.0-4_i386.deb
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `iscan' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
145760 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace iscan 2.19.0-4 (using iscan_2.19.0-4_i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 17: Syntax error: Bad substitution
dpkg: error processing iscan_2.19.0-4_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: 25: Syntax error: Bad substitution
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
iscan_2.19.0-4_i386.deb

I have 7.10 installed at the moment on my 32bit box, I have also tried it on my 64bit box running 8.04.

Cheers
Stu

[nlz]

I think you first have to remove all iscan packages before you install new ones.