On 2018-03-17 16:32, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Paul Groves wrote:
On 17/03/18 14:54, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Paul Groves <paul.groves.787@gmail.com> [03-17-18 10:44]:
I just plugged in my Epson Perfection 3170 Photo scanner. This is the second scanner that doesn't 'Just work' in Linux. Two in one week! :-O I just can't believe it.
Wikipedia --> sane --> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanner_Access_Now_Easy> --> <http://www.sane-project.org/> --> Supported devices --> <http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html> --> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON The "Perfection 3170 PHOTO" is unsupported. USB 0x04b8/0x0116
It shows up in sane-find-scanner for root (not for my user) and does not show in scanimage -L or sudo scanimage -L
sudo sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:005
This is the one (see the vendor/product hex ID). *Unsupported* Comment says "supported by the epkowa backend plus non-free interpreter". Backend epson2 (1.0.124 (unmaintained)) Manpage sane-epson2 I think this means you need the proprietary driver package.
scanimage -L
No scanners were identified.
What gives? How can I get the scanner to show up in scanimage?
I think after you identified the scanner, you have to uncomment the proper driver module in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.
YaST would do this automatically. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)