On 23/09/2021 00.28, DennisG wrote:
On 9/22/21 2:27 PM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 9/13/21 9:40 PM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Now that I can see the Epson printer and print to it, I would like to get the scanner to work also. When I select XSane Scanner Tool, I get a box "no devices available" --the scanner is part of the Epson printer and works manually. I wonder if this is the problem I had several years ago that required an addition to one of the driver files, but I don't know how to find out. I think I did mention it in a note to the group, but I don't know if that was for the scanner or the printer. (Also, there seem to be several email paths to the folks at OS, so I don't know which one it would have been.) --doug
IIRC last year and the year before about this time you had problems with this printer/scanner. I seem to recall that you had downloaded driver files from the Epson site that included a shell script which you ran and which installed old proprietary drivers that did not work. You were instructed to install an openSUSE drivers package in which there was the necessary driver and then to use YaST to install it. In the other case, you had gotten a tar file, unpacked it, and borked the system trying to install pieces therein.
While my memory is rusty about details in each case, I do remember that you had us going in circles for weeks/months each time. And in one instance, a solution had been provided on the Forums a couple months previous which you had not informed us of. But there apparently was a solution and the scanner was working (right?).
I'm not about to try to de/reconstruct all that again. If in 2019 and/or 2020 there was a solution, maybe you should find those posts.
--dg Yes, I got it working in 2019. As someone already said, I should have
On 9/15/21 2:15 PM, DennisG wrote: put it in my paper logbook, but it got overlooked. If someone can tell me how to find those emails (and not a stack of completely unrelated ones from everybody about everything) I would be extremely happy to look them up! I do remember that there was a file MISSING from OpenSUSE that I had to copy from another Linux system. I don't think I have that system anymore to copy from since I had a lot of destruction recently due to lightning. --doug
IIRC one of those cases was the printer but the other case the scanner. I seem to recall there was a set of files from Epson that provided a front-end for the scanner (a bells&whistles xsane), but those wouldn't work (I don't recall why). Inside those pieces was a proprietary driver that can't be provided by opensuse. But didn't we find that there was a driver available inside a package of drivers you had not installed, once you did that you could install the scanner with YaST? (You do know that your Epson has to be installed twice, as a printer and separately as a scanner?)
I don't know if there is an archive of these lists.
Of course there is, look at the headers of your own email. Your email is archived at Archived-At: <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/message/JMVKIWHCZJ6OWE74W26LQEIX6A5URXGS/> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))