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I've got a Epson Stylus SX 205, user of openSUSE 11.2. Printer is working fine
with Gutenprint, but scanner is not working fine nor even at all.
I downloaded the proper file meant for openSUSE 11.2, iscan-2.24.0-4.i386.rpm,
everything has been installed properly without any problems or any dependency hell, but
when opening iscan (without or under root) I get the message from iscan:
Sending command to scanner failed. Check status of scanner.
Well, my scanner has been connected well, discovered well with sudo sane-find-scanner
and with other syntaxes.
But iscan gives this problem (see above) and XSane and Skanlite do not recognize any
scanner at all.
What could be the problem as the printer works fine?
Many thanks anyway, I found out on a Ubuntu site with the same kind of problem how to edit udev and another file as well, to make iscan work without sudo/root.
Of course for openSUSE some things were slightly different - we know, the different distros - (I have been studying Slackware in the past anyway, very interesting) but now the scanner is working perfectly.
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