EPSON V500 on Suse 13.2 64bit

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Greetings All,

I’ve been trying to get my Epson V500 to work under Suse 13.2 64 bit. It WAS functional under my prior installation of Suse 13.1 32-bit.

I have downloaded (from the Epson site) and installed the following rpms:

  • iscan-data-1.36.0-1.noarch.rpm
    iscan-2.30.1-1.usb0.1.ltdl3.x86_64.rpm
    iscan-plugin-gt-x820-2.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm*

However, ISCAN reports

‘could not send command to scanner’

I have also tried installing iscan-2.30.1-1.usb0.1.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm with the same results
(I’m not sure which one is the correct driver)

If I go to YAST->Hardware the scanner shows as “Not Configured” .
If I edit and select the driver for Epson Perfection V500 Photo, I get a pop-up with the message:

'The epkowa driver may cause problems on 64-bit x86_64 architecture'

and the device remains ‘Not Configured’

Before I re-install with a 32-bit system, is there any other magic that I can try to get this device working in 13.2?

Thanx in advance.

Rich

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iscan-plugin-gt-x820-2.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

If I search, I get the iscan-plugin-gt-x770-2.1.2-1.x86_64.rpm:

GT-X770, Perfection V500 Photo

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The plugin package contains proprietary libraries and firmware. I have seen some threads (concerning this and similar models) that suggest it is necessary to run ‘iscan-registry’ first with something like

iscan-registry –add interpreter usb 0x04b8 0x0133  /usr/lib/iscan/libesint86 /usr/share/iscan/esfw86.bin

*Make sure that the product ID matches ‘lsusb’ ID.

I believe it creates ‘/var/lib/iscan/interpreter’ with the corresponding entry

interpreter usb 0x04b8 0x0133 /usr/lib/iscan/libesint66 /usr/share/iscan/esfw66.bin

Once that’s done, you should be good to go. I hope that helps.

References:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77802
http://doctormo.org/2009/04/27/sane-new-epson-scanner/

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Good catch sauerland. The right firmware package will help :slight_smile:

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Aha! That was the problem. I grabbed the ‘x820’ figuring is was the more recent.
I’m not sure what the ‘x820’ version is for, but I’ve made a note to myself NOT to install it!

The scanner is now up and running!

Thanx again!

Rich

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I’m not sure what the ‘x820’ version is for,

It is for (from the Downloadpage):

GT-X820, Perfection V600 photo