EPSON prefection 4490 photo scanner

[Ron Morse]

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:12:44 Denis Gaulin wrote:
> 	My problem is .. I have an EPSON scanner,  4490 perfection 4490 PHOTO that
> I use with my Mac IBOOK G4 and I want to switch to these new OS and I do
> not know how to install it on these computers because Kubuntu or UBUNTU do
> not recognize the scanner.

Denis, and list.

Last night (late) I posted a recipe fpr installing this scanner in Kubuntu.  I 
have discovered it contains an error.  In the section where I talk about 
detecting the scanner after it is hooked up:

-- ignore any reference to scanimage -L (won't work until after driver is 
installed)

-- sane-find-scanner should detect something at this point, but wont list 
Epson by name. You should see something like: 


found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0119) at libusb:005:004
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported 
by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

except see the above note about scanimage. 

I can only claim the hour was late and my brain was full when I sent my 
original answer to your question. Apologies for any confusion. 

Ron Morse