On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Michael George [10-17-05 14:50]:

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I have googled and not found anything so far. I see that /dev/usbscanner is still owned by me, but /etc/sane.d/epson.conf doesn't reference it anymore.

edit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf

# # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # # USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could # otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being # recognized. # usb /dev/usbscanner

make sure the last line is there

I've tried it with that (my normal user is the owner of /dev/usbscanner, too) and that doesn't work, either. The only uncommented lines are: scsi EPSON usb and I've tried "usb", "usb 0x4b8 0x110", and "usb /dev/usbscanner". All of them give me "no devices found". -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.

On Monday 17 October 2005 23:22, Michael George wrote:

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:59:43PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Michael George [10-17-05 14:50]:

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I have googled and not found anything so far. I see that /dev/usbscanner is still owned by me, but /etc/sane.d/epson.conf doesn't reference it anymore.

edit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf

# # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # # USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could # otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being # recognized. # usb /dev/usbscanner

make sure the last line is there

I've tried it with that (my normal user is the owner of /dev/usbscanner, too) and that doesn't work, either.

The only uncommented lines are: scsi EPSON usb

and I've tried "usb", "usb 0x4b8 0x110", and "usb /dev/usbscanner". All of them give me "no devices found".

I've had similar intractable problems with an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo, which used to work perfectly under former editions of SuSE. However, something got changed somewhere and now it doesn't work. Various people kindly tried to help, and I went through all the documentation, all the YaSTing, all the editing of this file and that, and various people (not necessarily the same various people) telling me that I must have some kind of 'weird' usb, that it 'ought' to work, or implying that I must have 'done something' - but it isn't and it didn't, and I hadn't. By all means hack about a bit more, because your problem may well not be the same as mine, whatever it was. However, if you're stuck, download the trial VueScan software from www.hamrick.com. If the trial version works, you know you're onto a winner and it's then well worth paying them the few bucks for the full version. It's highly competent software, and in my case 'just worked.' If I remember rightly you get quite a few free updates from them into the future. HTH Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB UK Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk

El Dimarts, 18 de Octubre de 2005 09:53, Johannes Meixner va escriure:

Hello,

On Oct 17 15:48 Michael George wrote:

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My Epson usb scanner quit working after I rebooted this weekend. It had been up some 80 days and the scanner worked fine.

I started YaST and it found it and could do a sample scan. I can start XSane as root, but not as my user.

I have googled and not found anything so far. I see that /dev/usbscanner is still owned by me, but /etc/sane.d/epson.conf doesn't reference it anymore.

/dev/usbscanner is outdated since some time (i.e. since libusb is used).

As you neither tell the scanner model nor the Suse Linux version, you are on your own: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/10/jsmeix_scanner-setup-92.html http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/03/jsmeix_scanner-setup-93.html http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/09/jsmeix_scanner-setup-100.html

Hi, If you can access your scanner as root but not as a simple user and you are using suse10.0, there's a very similar bug reported: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8575427&forum_id=87 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8008866&forum_id=5425 -- Flextron - Linux user: 306877 -- GPG keyID: 0xE0EA0B24 --