jurgen.defu...@pandora.be (Jurgen Defurne) writes: > I followed the instructions I found here > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=108256), which gave a little bit > more information about setting up udev. > > I got some better activity and feedback, from this command : > > SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 scanimage -L > > However, it hangs at sane_snapscan_get_devices, with the following > output from the process : > > [snapscan] atomic_usb_cmd(0,0xbfea70ce,6,0x0,0x0 (0)) > [snapscan] usb_cmd(0,0xbfea70ce,6,0x0,0x0 (0)) > [snapscan] usb_cmd: cmdlen=6, datalen=0 > [snapscan] usb_write: writing: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 > [snapscan] Written 6 bytes > [snapscan] usb_read: reading: 0xfb 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 > [snapscan] Read 8 bytes > [snapscan] 2nd read 4 write 2 > [snapscan] snapscani_init_device_structure() > [snapscan] sane_snapscan_get_devices (0xbfea8298, 0) > > and after some time the process starts to take up 100% CPU. > > What I want to know is if the snapscan backend on its own is enough to > drive the scanner, or do I always need the iscan shared libraries from > the Avasys website, and if yes, what is the best place to install them ?
You need a firmware file (esfw52.bin). As for the iscan shared libraries (I assume you're talking about iscan-plugin-gt-f520-1.0.0-1.c2.i386.rpm) are only used by the epkowa backend. The snapscan backend does not use them. The epkowa backend is available in the iscan package/source. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2