Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> It (iscan) doesn't upload firmware for the CX7400. Moreover, firmware >> uploads would be lost when you power-down the device (long enough). >> >> I'm curious as to how you installed and removed iscan. My current >> best bet is that the epkowa backend is still found in a place where >> SANE finds it, typically in /usr/lib/sane/, and epkowa.conf is still >> on the system as well. >> >> If you installed with `rpm -U` and removed with `rpm -e` everything >> ought to be gone after removal. Maybe you're using a less common, as >> in one we don't test with, distribution and things didn't go as they >> were intended to. >> >> Let me know what distribution you're using and how you installed and >> removed iscan. Were there any messages by any chance? Also, what >> device names do you get with `scanimage -L`? If there's any that >> start with 'epkowa:' the backend's still there somewhere. >> > Right now, iscan is installed (used rpm -ivh iscan-...rpm), scanimage -L > returns: > device `epson:libusb:005:006' is a Epson CX7400 flatbed scanner > I unplugged it from the outlet overnight and tried just now - it's still > working and still showing up as "epson:libusb..."
OK, so it's using the epson backend. It is not using the epkowa backend that comes with iscan. If you can use the CX7400 with the epson backend, good for you! > I'm currently on Fedora Core 6. I used "yum remove iscan" to uninstall > the package. I didn't check in /usr/lib/sane, but there was an > epkowa.conf.rpmsave in /etc/sane.d/ after the uninstall. Removing > .rpmsave file didn't seem to affect anything. That .rpmsave file is just a backup that yum makes when you remove the package. All iscan stuff proper should be gone and most definitely the epkowa backend. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS Corporation 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