On Sunday 31 October 2004 05:25 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote:
I just bought an Epson Perfection 4180 USB scanner. Seems there is no/not much support for Epson scanners in Linux. From what I read the 4180 is similar to the 3170, does anyone have either of these working in SUSE 9.1 ?? 9.2 maybe?? I downloaded the sane-backend for epson, but all it is, is a directory with a epson.c and epson.h file, and I'm lost as to what to do. any help is greatly appreciated!
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 ============
Paul, Epson equipment is probably one of the "best" supported hardwares in Linux, but sometimes even the good guys drift a bit. If you go to this page, you will find the list of scanners sane presently supports and doesn't support. The 4180 was not listed and the 3170 was "unsupported"! One of those times Epson wandered off the standards path. The 3170 seems to have a driver from the Epson epkowa site though, as may the 4180. I've not had much luck with the newer rpms they offer, but then my 1650 Photo works nicely with kooka & xsane. Here's the site: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html From this info, it sounds like you might have wanted to do a bit more research, before purchasing your unit. Lee