EPSON prefection 4490 photo scanner

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 17 March 2007 10:12 pm, Denis Gaulin wrote:
> newcomers  ( people like me who know very little ). The Documentation
> should present the names of all the different programs included  in an
> alphebatical order with a simple description of what they do, serve or
> support...   Ex. What is Ark ? I do not know.

That sounds easier to do than it actually would be.  There are hundreds, 
probably thousands of programs installed out of the box.  Most of them should 
have a description in the help system somewhere, either as KDE help or man 
pages.  ("Man pages" are the old style UNIX help system.  "Man" is short 
for "manual.")

If you press F1 from just about anywhere, it should open the KDE Help Center.  
From there, you can use the left pane of the window to navigate through the 
help for everything, whether it's a KDE application or not.

>  For instance I am still not sure of what is the purpose of ALSA what it
> does, etc... Nothing is said in the Documentation.

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.  You might not need to know anything about 
ALSA.  Most things should work out of the box, unless you have advanced 
requirements.

> Remenber we are newfy!  to linux OS

You're only a newfy to Linux if you're a newbie who lives in Newfoundland.  :)

> 	Anyway After 2 full nights of reading all the definitions of every package
> in Adept  I found '' libsane'' .  I installed the package but nothing
> happened for my scanner...

Ron posted a recipe for you to follow on this one.  Executing his instructions 
will probably leave you scratching your head, so do feel free to ask for 
clarification.

The situation you face with that scanner is unfortunate.  Hardware under Linux 
is a range from working out of the box effortlessly to no hope of ever 
getting it to work.  Your scanner appears to fall in toward the "no hope" 
end, but not quite all the way there.  You are going to have to learn more 
than the average newbie just starting out, but at least you know someone 
before you got the thing to work.  That is very helpful.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre