On 2018-03-19 12:53, Paul Groves wrote:
Nothing has helped so far.
I just installed 12.3 in a VM and connected my scanner. It works! 13.1. Problem comes back.
Ubuntu 10 in a VM also finds my scanner and works out the box. Ubuntu 17.10 does not. Same problem.
I am trying to find out what the differences are between the odler OSes and the newer ones. I cannot see why they would remove compatibility?
I told you that the "Perfection 3170 PHOTO" with vendor/model 0x04b8/0x0116 is simply not supported. --> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON Maybe it is supported by the proprietary driver package. The page hints that it was supported by "epson2" (1.0.124) which is unmaintained. If it works with older distros, then install one such old distro in a virtual machine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)