The original problem, which appeared weeks ago, was that the scanner (which I have installed before on this very hardware, the and under the same oS v11.3), would not scan. I wrote: ***** The scanner is Epson 640U, in recently installed openSuSE v11.3. YaST > Scanners finds it and identifies it correctly; I have chosen the epson2 driver. scanimage -L device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson Perfection640 flatbed scanner -----much snipped----- ***** Lots of time , and lots of help from others here and elsewhere have not helped in solving the problem; wasted time for me and others. Today, I stumbled on a bug report that tells me that this scanner won't run with this version of the epson2 driver (epson2.so.1.0.21). YaST, reading from the sane-backends package, assure me that this driver "should' run the 640U; this, together with the fact that I have used epson2 before, gave me the unfortunate confidence that the driver, having served well in the past, could not be at fault. The bug is #583166; I found it at <http://us.generation-nt.com/bug-583166-libsane-scanner-epson- perfection-640u-fails-epson2-backend-help-198503171.html>. YaST offers me only epson2.so.1.0.21 in the sane-backends package, although the file list for this package shows that epson.so.1.0.21 is present, and that file (which the wab page containing the bug report says will work with this scanner, is indeed present: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-02-16 12:05 libsane-epson2.so.1 -> libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189736 2010-07-06 00:41 libsane-epson2.so.1.0.21 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2011-02-16 12:05 libsane-epson.so.1 -> libsane-epson.so.1.0.21 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 127592 2010-07-06 00:41 libsane-epson.so.1.0.21 Why is YaST not showing it to me? I could simply make the epson2 link point to the epson file. But I would like to understand why YaST is keeping it secret, and to cause it to allow me to make the choice in the normal way. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org