After solving a problem with xsane's USB configuration the Perfection 610 was recognized instantly.

I have a epson perfection 1670 and can't get it recognized. I am a newbie so need a bit of hand holding. can you explain exactly how you config your epson scanner

Oddity to get this kid to work under libusb since with the 2.6 kernel series the module scanner.ko is depricated and I didn't actually see it at all when building 2.6.3. In the sane dll file for the epson, epson.dll:

usb libusb:002:002

(you're libusb id number will be different then mine, I got it from the sane-find-scanner binary)

Then in order for Joe User to get to this device, edit /etc/fstab so it makes the /proc entry so everyone can use it:

When distros begin to release on 2.6 they'll probably auto-magic this, but for the time being there's a fix.

Note, if you've made the symlink for gimp, you'll have to change it...

Cheers,

Finegan

Picked it up at a thrift store. Xsane autodetected. Works great.

So long as your USB setup works then sane will detect this scanner and it will work.
Sometimes my scanner needs to be asked twice to do things but that's true under XP as well so I think it's just getting a bit old (had it since it was the newest release from Epson).

Just works, because of complete support from sane:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS