I'm trying to install a new Epson V100 Photo scanner under Slackware 11.0. sane-find-scanner finds the scanner and lists it correctly as an Epson. I've downloaded and installed the (alas, proprietary) drivers from the Epson site, and all the permissions seem to be correct. Yet neither xsane nor iscan will actually talk to the scanner.

Does anyone have this particular combination working?

Do sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L tell you anything when you run them as root?

One problem I've seen is making sure you have the proper udev rule set up for the device. On Debian, the libsane-extras package provides a libsane-extras.rules file for udev that has entries for most of the epkowa models. I don't know what's available in slack.

The rule should look something like this. You need to substitute the actual product number for your device, of course (as given by sane-find-scanner or lsusb).

See here for more info on applying udev rules:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html


Also:

Double check that you have an /etc/saned/epkowa.conf file, and that it's configured correctly. In most cases, a single uncommented line saying "usb" is all that's necessary.

Be sure you have saned running when you use the device. Check that you have initd or xinitd configured properly when you do. Read the saned man page for more about this.

Thanks for the suggestions David. 'sane-find-scanner' and 'scanimage -L' both give the correct answers, so to speak. This is the (relevant) output of sane-find-scanner:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x012d [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:005

There are udev rules, but I'll have to look them over to see if there is anything amiss.

I thought saned was only necessaryif you wanted to use the scanner over the network. Am I wrong?

Thanks again for giving some more places to look!