EPSON Stylus Photo RX580, round 2

Crobat · 07-05-2007, 09:14 PM

I decided to make this a new thread, although it's the same piece of hardware, it's not printing that's causing me the trouble.

I can't figure out how to get the scanner functions working. Doing some research, I found sane. So I gave this a shot, and ran sane-find-scanner. As root, this is what I got:

Code:

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0827 [USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)]) at libusb:1:10
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

So, I think it's find so far, but then I tried scanimage -L (again, as root):

Code:

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

I'm completely puzzled. Is there something I'm missing?

David the H. · 07-06-2007, 02:55 PM

Follow the link in my sig and get the avasys driver for your model. You'll probably have to compile it yourself. It includes a sane backend plugin so you can use your scanner with any sane-friendly program, but you may have to use the built-in iscan program to get the full range of scanning options. The interface for it really sux, however.

Optionally, check out the vuescan program. I've never tried it myself, but it might work better.

Crobat · 07-07-2007, 09:15 AM

Those didn't help directly, but I did find out in the README that I had to configure my /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf file to point to the scanner usb device. Now, I believe that all I have to do is change permissions, and off I go. Thanks!