I also had installed iscan 2.0 and I was getting the message: could not connect to scanner. please check..something I the way I installed it was to convert the rpm to deb and then installed it.
metricus On Tuesday 13 June 2006 00:54, you wrote: > Adrian Jadic <ja...@dallnet.net> writes: > > I have trouble using the Epson Perfection 3170 Photo in Kubuntu 6.06 > > > > Kooka and scanimage recognise the scanner. However when I try to scan I > > am getting the following errors: > > ================= > > ~$ scanimage -L > > device `epson:libusb:001:004' is a Epson flatbed scanner > > This scanner is NOT supported by the epson backend. It is also not > supported by the plustek or snapscan backends. If you want to use > this scanner, you will have to use the epkowa backend together with a > non-free binary-only plugin. Some distributions now include this > backend but the plugin is probably only available via: > > http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html > > > ~$ scanimage > > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > ~$ kooka > > libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc) > > libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc) > > ScimInputContextPlugin() > > ~ScimInputContextPlugin() > > ~$ > > ================= > > This happens in both root and user. > > Can anyone help me get further here? This scanner works fine in SUSE 9.3 > > > > metricus > > AMD 3000+, 1GB RAM, Kubuntu 6.06 > > The plugin is only available for i386 ... > > Hope this helps,