On Friday 01 April 2005 03:30 am, steve wrote:
Hi. The printer bit works fine with CUPS.
The scanner: is supported by iscan available from the kowa-epson site. On installing that version of iscan I get the error 'iscan depends on sane-backends'. I have sane installed. I force the rpm and fire up iscan:
Could not send command to scanner
I've uninstalled the sane package and compiled the sane-backends from the tarball but get the same error.
Can anyone help me here? SuSE 9.2 YOU updated.
thanks, Steve. =========
Steve, I found this a problem too, when I installed IScan for my Photo 1650 model. Everything worked correctly with sane/xsane before, but after installing IScan, it quit. Oh, try not to ever use --force, all that was needed was --nodeps for this to install. After doing a bit of investigation, I found the /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf file to be somewhat different from my original epson.conf file that worked. I believe it was calling for the wrong device for some reason, so altered epkowa.conf to match the epson.conf file. Viola! That did the trick and it works great now. Here are the settings from my file for you to compare: # epkowa.conf # # examples for how to configure the SANE EPSON KOWA Backend # # SCSI scanner: # scsi EPSON # # Parallel port scanner: #pio 0x278 #pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC # # USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could # otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being # recognized. # usb /dev/usb/scanner0 usb usb 0x4b8 0x110 The last line may be a bit different for you as this is the device ID of the 1650. You may need to investigate your USB devices to get yours or you might try leaving that line out. Cheers, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "He's not my brother, he's just heavy." ........Bucky Katt