On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 20:23 -0400, Pedro wrote:
> I have a Visioneer OnTouch 8700 USB scanner
> (actually a Primax USB scanner?)
> vendor=0x0461, product=0x0371, Realtek RTS8801B chipset
>
> Its said to be supported by the linux kernel scanner driver,
> (scanner.c) though there doesnt seem to be
I have one sitting next to my computer, and it works...
Try to set the debug environment variable before you run scanimage:
export SANE_DEBUG_EPSON=255
scanimage > /tmp/scan.log 2>&1
The file /tmp/scan.log will contain information about what the
backend is
doing. What surprises me is that the
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 g.hin...@verizon.net wrote:
> Therefore, it won't compile. I can try using the binaries but I'm not sure
> how to extract them from rpm, or if I should just install rpm, or if they
1 peregrine[23:13:32]:/usr/bin$ ls -lF rpm*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 4210 Jun 15 2004 rpm2targz*
Thanks, it turns out I had this rpm2tgz tool already.
I used rpm2tgz and then pkgtool to install the precompiled iscan binary.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my system (see below). It's not linking to
shared libraries on my system properly. Creating symbolic links, e.g.
in /usr/lib, doesn't s
> I have one sitting next to my computer, and it works...
Are you using the proprietary epson drivers (called iscan-1.14.0-3)?
Or does it work without those?
> The file /tmp/scan.log will contain information about what the
> backend is
> doing.
It seems pretty bare :(
# set | grep SANE
SANE_DEBU
dll.conf appears to come with epson uncommented, along with a whole bunch of
other backends.
On Saturday 02 July 2005 12:53 pm, you wrote:
> Did you uncomment the entry for the EPSON backend in dll.conf?
>
> On Jul 2, 2005, at 2:46 PM, g.hin...@verizon.net wrote:
> >> I have one sitting next to m
Remove everything but the one line that says "epson" (you may want to
rename the original file and create a new one with just this one
line), then run the test with the DEBUG variable again. From what
you've posted so far it's clear that the EPSON backend never gets
called. There usually is
