EPSON prefection 4490 photo scanner

[Denis Gaulin]

Lot of thanks.. I will follow this way and see the outcome tomorrow... I have 
to get out today


Denis Gaulin



Le Mars 18, 2007 11:03 AM, Ron Morse a écrit :
> 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