170503 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: >> It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob >> & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item >> (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). >> So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on Gentoo ? > Unpack the .deb in Mint with 'dpkg', > then extract and investigate or show us the contents.
In another thread today, Thelma wrote : > I was installing Brother printer driver on Gentoo via rpm > rpm -ihv --nodeps (lpr-drivername) > rpm -ihv --nodeps (cupswrapper-drivername) There is also a .rpm version of the Epson driver pkg & I see a Gentoo pkg 'rpm', which presumably gives the above commands. Would it perhaps be easiest to install 'rpm' & get the .rpm driver, then install the driver in a similar way to Thelma's printer driver ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
