scanner woes

[Steven Didier]

Stefan,
I finally got time to check the epson.conf file you suggested. After
uncommenting the usb line voila! 
Thanks for the help!
Steve

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 05:34, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> At 00:52 -0700 on 2004-4-27 Steven Didier wrote:
>  >
>  > I have an Epson 1650 photo scanner that YDL 3.0 will not recognize
>  > although in the hardware browser under KDE it does show up but with no
>  > drivers listed. Does anyone have an idea on how I can get this thing
>  > working? Any help is much appreciated!
> 
> I have precisely the same scanner, works like a charm (and almost out
> of the box).  The only configuration I had to change was the file
> /etc/sane.d/epson.conf which after the change contained the following
> (sole) uncommented line:
> 
>     usb /dev/usb/scanner0
> 
> (I am assuming you have the USB variety.)  The node /dev/usb/scanner0
> should be there already, it's been installed by dev-3.3.1-2a.
> 
> Oh, by the way, you did install the SANE RPMs, right?  I have
> 
>     sane-backends-1.0.8-5
>     sane-frontends-1.0.8-4
>     xsane-0.84-8
>     sane-backends-devel-1.0.8-5
>     xsane-gimp-0.84-8
> 
> Technically you do not need the latter two I believe, though they do
> come in handy especially the last one that allows you to scan from
> within the Gimp (thing I use all the time).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Stefan