Cant setup up Epson Scanner

[soulestream]

I have a Epson Cx5400 all in one. I have set it up before, but there seems to be something I'm missing.

Slackware 10.2
Kernel 2.6.13

lsusb detects it as
bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b8:0808 Seiko Epson

sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor =0x04b8 [Epson], product =0x0808 [USB MFP] at libusb:001:003

I got stuck from there.

scanimage -L gives me no devices detected.

I believe I have /etc/sane.d/epson.conf and /etc/sane.d/sane.conf setup up correctly.

any ideas

soule

[Calipso]

I dont have an answer or anything but thought that maybe if you posted your epson.conf and sane.conf it might make it easier for others to see what you possibly did wrong.


[side note]
i have my scanner working but for some reason only as root....didnt have time to look into the solution yet.

maybe this could help:
http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/libusb.html

[soulestream]

epson (http://home.midsouth.rr.com/soulestream/epson.conf)

saned (http://home.midsouth.rr.com/soulestream/saned.conf)

soule

[quip]

I thought I would give you a nice little walkthrough, since I have had my CX6600 going great since I brought it home. However, I ran into the same problem as you. Some poking around led me to this: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=302207&group_id=30186&atid=410366 . Basically, a bug in the new sane package. I tried to upgradepkg back to 1.0.15, but did not notice a change. Usblp claims the device, and scanimage won't touch it, which means none of the frontends will either.

Supposedly, the daily cvs snapshot has a fix, and I am compiling it now. Hopefully, it works.

[quip]

Yup, it compiled, and it works. You can access your scanner again.

Of course, being from CVS, it comes with the usual disclaimers, but a quick test scan of a magazine cover looks good!

[soulestream]

okay

That worked wonderfully.

however

Now I can't scan as non-root

I am a member of scanner group

previously i could modify /dev/usb/scanner, but that doesnt seem to work now

can you scan as user?


soule

[quip]

Now you need to set up your hotplug script correctly to change the permissions for you. I could give you a look at mine, but I'm not at home right now, and I had problems getting it to work. I think I finally just said forget it after about 5 minutes, and just added a script to rc.local. All it does is change the permissions on all devices plugged into that usb hub to 666. This isn't a security issue for me, but it might be for you. Either way (hotplug script or your own doing), what you need to modify is /proc/bus/usb/hub#/device#. Mine looks like /proc/bus/usb/001/003. You can get the info you need in a variety of ways, one being to take a look at /proc/bus/devices.

HTH

[soulestream]

I will do some googling for the script, but for now a little chmod did the trick.


Thanks

soule