Hello, On Jun 21 19:17 Dave Howorth wrote (shortened):
I have an Epson RX620 all-in-one, which works fine on my Suse 9.3 x86-64 system thanks to Johannes' help last year. I recently installed Suse 10.2 x86-64 and now it doesn't work :(
Did you install openSUSE 10.2 anew from scratch or did you update your existing Suse Linux 9.3 system?
PRINTER
It seems to have recognized the printer - YaST and CUPS have an entry for it and say "Epson Stylus Photo RX620 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.0 Simplified". But I can't print anything to it. If I try - e.g. using the test facilty in YaST - nothing happens at the printer (no flashing light). CUPS says it is "Printer State: processing, accepting jobs, published." but also says " stylusphotorx620 (Default Printer) "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds...". I've tried stopping and restarting the printer with no effect.
What exactly did you do to "stopping and restarting the printer"? Did you use "cupsenable" to restart the printer? What does "lpstat -p stylusphotorx620" show? The "not connected" message indicates that the low-level communication via USB with the printer doesn't work reliable or doesn't work at all, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "The Backends" What does "lpinfo -v" show? Is your printer listed by "lsusb"? See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "If problems are encountered" how to get debugging information from the cupsd.
SCANNER
sane says "no devices available". Again, I haven't found the right documentation. I found the page http://en.opensuse.org/Epson but it doesn't seem to say much and is wrong if I believe the description of the iscan package in YaST. Suse 10.2 has installed iscan-firmware but not iscan or iscan-free. I don't understand what it should be installing.
According to the driver description files all you need is the iscan-free package, the RX620 doesn't need firmware. In the YaST scanner config, it is listed as Epson Stylus Photo RX620: Driver epkowa (package iscan-free)... so that the YaST scanner config should install the iscan-free package, activate the epkowa line in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and then it should work. If not, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 "USB Cable Connection and Additional USB Hubs" and "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)"
I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:14 +0100] Setting y2test device-uri to "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20RX620" (was "file:/dev/null".) ... I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstops (PID 26161) for job 6. I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 26162) for job 6. I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started filter /usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0 (PID 26163) for job 6. I [20/Jun/2007:23:04:15 +0100] Started backend /usr/lib64/cups/backend/usb (PID 26164) for job 6.
There are no error messages of interest in this log (it looks o.k.). Only with the CUPS debug messages (see above) there is a chance to find out what there is really going on. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org