[ale] Fedora 16 declines to see Epson Perfection 610

[Michael Trausch]

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On Jan 26, 2012 4:36 PM, "Tom Freeman" <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:

>
> I've been banging my head against this for a while with nothing to show
> for it.
>
> I have an Epson Perfection 610 flatbed scanner, which hasn't seen any use
> for two or three years, but which I appear to need to have up and running
> in the near future against my desktop machine. A little late, but I also
> brought the software up to date by installing Fedora 16 over the old
> install (F-14, I know the job should have been done some months ago 8-()
> The system software has installed fine (with one glitch only, another post
> sorry). Now for the scanner...
>
> Things are nice and plugged up. (Power, usb, etc). I can use lsusb to
> locate the scanner and the manufacturer and device id (0x04b8:0x0103 if I
> copied correctly). Running sane-find-scanner both as myself regular user
> and root appears to find the scanner, but scanimage -L does not find the
> scanner.
>
> I've tried some edits and poking around in /etc/sane.d, mostly to try
> adding a "usb 0x04b8 0x0103" line to the epson2.conf file, but also to try
> using the epson.conf backend (which is depreciated). SeLinux both on and
> off, still no joy. Probably my description to google lacks something, but
> I haven't found any leads there either.
>
> I know the scanner works, as I plugged up with a friend's laptop under
> Ubuntu 10.10, and it just works under Ubuntu.
>
> I am sorely puzzled by this, and apparently need to report to the public
> square for a beating with a large clue stick.
>
> Again, thanks for the use of your bandwidth and time
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