[ale] Fedora 16 declines to see Epson Perfection 610

[Michael Trausch]

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On Jan 26, 2012 4:48 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Make sure you have every *sane*.rpm except devel installed. Yum
> --exclude=*-devel* install *sane*
>
> Part 2:  forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272582 has links to
> Epson site with correct drivers. Look for gmandolyn.
> On Jan 26, 2012 4:36 PM, "Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've been banging my head against this for a while with nothing to show
>> for it.
>>
>> I have an Epson Perfection 610 flatbed scanner, which hasn't seen any use
>> for two or three years, but which I appear to need to have up and running
>> in the near future against my desktop machine. A little late, but I also
>> brought the software up to date by installing Fedora 16 over the old
>> install (F-14, I know the job should have been done some months ago 8-()
>> The system software has installed fine (with one glitch only, another post
>> sorry). Now for the scanner...
>>
>> Things are nice and plugged up. (Power, usb, etc). I can use lsusb to
>> locate the scanner and the manufacturer and device id (0x04b8:0x0103 if I
>> copied correctly). Running sane-find-scanner both as myself regular user
>> and root appears to find the scanner, but scanimage -L does not find the
>> scanner.
>>
>> I've tried some edits and poking around in /etc/sane.d, mostly to try
>> adding a "usb 0x04b8 0x0103" line to the epson2.conf file, but also to try
>> using the epson.conf backend (which is depreciated). SeLinux both on and
>> off, still no joy. Probably my description to google lacks something, but
>> I haven't found any leads there either.
>>
>> I know the scanner works, as I plugged up with a friend's laptop under
>> Ubuntu 10.10, and it just works under Ubuntu.
>>
>> I am sorely puzzled by this, and apparently need to report to the public
>> square for a beating with a large clue stick.
>>
>> Again, thanks for the use of your bandwidth and time
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