Epson Perfection 1670

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by herhin

your reply gives the solution!! Thank you!
I checked the file 55-libsane.rules and compared it with the 11.0-version. Curious enough, in 11.1 the rule for the 1670 is commented out. Why??? The GROUP is lp, which I added to the user before. Removing the #, trying kooka as user, heureka it works!

herhin, congratulations on sticking with this to solve it. deano_ferrari well done on proposing an approach to find the solution.

My worry is this glitch could make it thru to 11.2. ... herhin if you get the chance/time, you could write a bug report on 11.1 on this, noting there is a fix/work around (describe your fix in the bug report). That way the developers hopefully known enough to address this in 11.2.

Info on raising bug reports here: Submitting Bug Reports - openSUSE

[deano_ferrari]

Good work herhin! As oldcpu suggested, please file a bug report, so that the udev rules can be checked for errors.

[oldcpu]

I installed open a 32-bit openSUSE-11.1 with KDE-4.3.1 on my wife's PC , where she has an Epson perfection 1260 connected. I could not initially get the scanner to scanwith either kooka or iscan. Her PC has the proprietary iscan apps:

iscan-proprietary-drivers-2.10.0.1-1.4
iscan-2.10.0.1-59.8
iscan-firmware-2.8.0.1-1.4

Her scanner:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04b8:011d Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1260 Photo

I next added her login to group "lp" and I also added the application xsane-0.996-0.pm.1.

I logged in/out of Linux and noted she could now scan with xsane but still neither kooka nor iscan would work. kooka recognized the device, but would simply sit at 0% when generating a preview. I waited an excessive time for the warmup (assuming that was taking place) but it did not make a difference from what I observed.

I noted iscan was giving the error "could not send command to scanner". I checked the /etc/udev/rules.d for the scanner rules under 55-libsane.rules and noted her scanner was listed, and it was not commented out. So in her case that was not the problem with iscan.

But further surfing on the web gave me a link to a Russian Epson support web site with this URL ( ... musing why do the Russians have the good support sites ? ... ): http://support.epson.ru/upload/libra...nner_linux.pdf
I downloaded that , was pleased to note it was in the English language, and found a trouble shooting section in that document that noted for the "could not send command to scanner" error , one could go to the /etc/sane.dll/dll.conf file, and add the word 'epkowa' in that file. I checked the file on my wife's PC and I noted that both 'epson' and 'epkowa' were already in the file on my wife's pc, but both were commented out. So I removed the comment symbol from in front of 'epkowa' (i left epson commented out), and iscan now worked. Strange. Possibly a packaging problem with one of the iscan apps I installed ?

I'm still not clear why kooka does not work. Likely I have something else misconfigured. Not a worry, as I now have 2 scanning apps that work, and my wife rarely boots to Linux (she is a big winXP fan).

[deano_ferrari]

Possibly a packaging problem with one of the iscan apps I installed ?

Likely. I have an Epson CX5500 MFP with epkowa driver (and associated entry in etc/sane.d/dll.conf), so must just be some packages. It works fine with kooka and iscan.