7.3 forgets about epson usb scanner
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Hi All, After minimum mucking about I got an epson 2450 photo scanner working very nicely with SuSE 7.3; yast2 offered a list which didn't include this (very new) model, but the setting for the 1200 photo works just fine, xsane can be installed as a nice plugin to gimp so that you can simply as gimp to acquire the image, etc. Cool. I do recommend the scanner if you want to get high-quality images from transparencies, we've had good success even with nineteenth-century glass slides and negatives. But the scanner install doesn't survive a reboot - in fact it doesn't even seem to survive a logout. Returning to Yast2, it seems to have had a memory blank and things are only got going again by re-installing the device. This isn't a killer, but can anyone think why this should be? Yast appears to close normally, and claims to have saved the results. Best Fergus
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Hello Fergus
But the scanner install doesn't survive a reboot - in fact it doesn't even seem to survive a logout. Returning to Yast2, it seems to have had a memory blank and things are only got going again by re-installing the device.
I have an epson 1650 scanner and had the same problem at the beginning. The solution for me was to write /sbin/modprobe scanner in /etc/init.d.boot.local So that the usb module for the scanner should be loaded at every boot. Hope this helps -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Ollion Proud Linux User - SuSE 7.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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