USB Scanner not detected by any programs

**searchfgold6789** · September 14th, 2010

I have an Epson perfection V100 Photo scanner. When I open any program, it will not detect the scanner. Simply plugging in the scanner and crossing fingers does not work.

sane-find-scanner returns the following:

Code:

  # 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=0x012d [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.

I entered in the informations as described on the Ubuntu Wiki into my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file, still no luck.
I tried installing the drivers and program from Avasys. Still no luck.
I tried pressing all the buttons on the scanner wildly at random and cursing. Surprisingly enough that didn't get me anywhere either.

Is there anyone here who has a fix, or has better googling skills than I do and could point me to a thread?
Thanks

- search