[ale] Fedora 16 declines to see Epson Perfection 610

[Lightner, Jeff]

Out of curiosity - Was the exclude of the devel package because it simply isn't needed or because it actually would cause a problem?





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tom Freeman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:19 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Fedora 16 declines to see Epson Perfection 610

Jim

That was the ticket. Thank you.

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Jim Kinney 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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