I was reading up on this myself. Andy's right in that the 1650 does work, but the 1250 does not because it doesn't use the Epson scanner language like the rest do.
See: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] USB Scanner not seen > At 05:51 PM 1/14/02 -0200, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > > > >On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, David wrote: > > > >Sorry to say this but, this is ONE of the Epson Scanners that *do not* > >work (for now) on Linux! > > > >I've search a lot... all recent models work except.... 1650! > > > >I almost bought one on seasons sale... great price! > > > >Ricardo Castanho > > No, the 1650 works fine. I started this thread and now have my Epson > Perfection 1650 Photo scanner running with sane, xsane, the gimp, etc.. > > I believe it is the 1250 that doesn't work due to not using the standard > Epson Scanner Language. > > andy > > >>On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:47, David wrote: > >>hi > >>goto the Epson website there is lots of info there on getting the Epson > >>scanners working under linux > > > >>> OK, I thought this was going to be an easy one. Apparently I was > wrong. I > >>> have an Epson Perfection 1650 USB scanner chosen partially because it is > >>> supported by SANE under Linux. I am running Mandrake 8.1 which has USB > >>> support. But the scanner does not show up in /dev/usb, though usbview > >>> shows it as present. And, of course, it doesn't show up --- nothing does > >>> --- in sane-find-scanner run as root. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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