Ilias Miroslav writes: > Dear Olaf, > > thanks, you helped me a lot ! > > I installed the "iscan + iscan-data" packages from the Epson support > web-page, and got the (USB-connected Epson) scanner working with > simple-scan and xsane. > > For the scanner, the lsusb command gives scanner ID of.... Bus 001 > Device 006: ID 04b8:084a Seiko Epson Corp. PX-501A [Stylus NX400].
Good. > Only minor issue remains: Though I put line "usb 0x04b8 084a" into the > (newly installed) Epson configuration file /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf, That is not necessary. > the "sudo sane-find-scanner" command prints error messages, and does > not show proper ID of the scanner: I get the feeling that you misunderstand the intended purpose of the sane-find-scanner command. If scanimage -L lists your scanner, you have no need for sane-find-scanner at all. Seeing that you can use the SX400 with simple-scan and xsane, you are all set. Don't worry about the NX400 in the output. Epson (and probably other manufacturers as well) has a habit of marketing the same device under different names in different parts of the world. The database used by lsusb only knows about PX-501A and Stylus NX400. Just search the list[1] of devices supported by external backends such as the epkowa backend for 0x04b8/0x084a and you'll find: PX-501A, Stylus NX400, Stylus SX400, Stylus SX405 and Stylus TX400. From a USB device perspective, these are all the same. [1] http://sane.alioth.debian.org/lists/sane-backends-external.htm > [snip] > The "scanimage -L " now detects scanner properly: > device `epkowa:usb:001:006' is a Epson Stylus NX400/SX400/TX400 flatbed > scanner See, the epkowa backend knows about most of the other ones. But hey, it the device works, who cares (much) about what the various tools think they are dealing with and what in printed on your device ;-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
