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Dude-man

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 43

[SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

Installed xsane, iscan and iscan-data, and xsane dosn't recognise/find the scanner, both run as root or normal user.

iscan 2.30.1-8
iscan-data 1.36.0-2

I've tried this on another linux distro, Virtual machine of latest Mint and install instructions of "iscan-gt-s650-bundle-1.0.0.x64.deb" And scanner is recognised, and works ok. As well as of course in XP vm.

lsusb gave

04b8:013c Seiko Epson Corp.

I've tried setting line in /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf

usb 0x04b8 0x013c

Now, when I run xsane it dosn't complain that it can't find a scanner but it just hangs

I tried removing  ~/.sane/ but makes no difference.

Any pointers where to look, there was no output from sudo journalctl -f

Last edited by Dude-man (2015-11-08 11:41:19)

Muflone

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Registered: 2013-10-08

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Re: [SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

You have to install the firmware for your model.
The packages iscan and iscan-data contain only the application to use the scanner, not the scanner firmware.

Please see the Epson website on what firmware you need and the search in the AUR if that firmware was already packaged.

Dude-man

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

Thanks Muflone, a plugin isn't in AUR for V17 or gt-s650 which I think are the same, and I am confused as many of the download links for the other iscan-plugin(-gt-s600) don't seem to work any more ? I was going to try and copy those PKGFILE's for this plugin.

I've installed the plugin dep that I downloaded bundled with iscan and iscan-data for Ubuntu/Mint and iscan now works, but Ixsane dosn't yet.

I'd like to still make a working AUR PKGFILE for this, so won't yet mark this as SOLVED.

Muflone

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From: Italy

Registered: 2013-10-08

Posts: 143

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Re: [SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

Would you mind to uninstall your plugin and use this one?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/isca … n-gt-s650/

Dude-man

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

Great... thanks for the PKGFILE etc

I've just tried it, installs fine, but I'm not sure the drivers are correct with this I don't get any lights on scanner, and dialog that pops up from running iscan now have just uknown scanners listed to select from.

The drivers I'd taken from the bundled deb i regiisted manually with this

  echo "Running iscan-registry to register plugins and firmware with iscan"
  iscan-registry --add interpreter usb 0x04b8 0x013c /usr/lib64/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so.0.0.0 /usr/share/iscan/esfw010c.bin

I took the working driver files from "iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm", which was included in the bundle I downloaded from epson website and installed on Mint. File list of that rpm looks like

rpm2cpio iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm | bsdtar -tf -

./usr/lib64/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so
./usr/lib64/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so.0
./usr/lib64/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so.0.0.0
./usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0
./usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0/AVASYSPL.en.txt
./usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0/AVASYSPL.ja.txt
./usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0/NEWS
./usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0/README
./usr/share/iscan-data/device/50657266656374696f6e20563139.xml
./usr/share/iscan-data/device/50657266656374696f6e20563339.xml
./usr/share/iscan/esfw010c.bin

I think the device xml files are missing from the PKGFILE and those 506* files are provided by iscan-data

tar -tf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/iscan-plugin-gt-s650-1.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

.PKGINFO
.INSTALL
.MTREE
usr/
usr/share/
usr/lib/
usr/lib/iscan/
usr/lib/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so.0.0.0
usr/lib/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so.0
usr/lib/iscan/libiscan-plugin-gt-s650.so
usr/share/licenses/
usr/share/doc/
usr/share/iscan/
usr/share/iscan/esfw010c.bin
usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650/
usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650/README
usr/share/doc/iscan-plugin-gt-s650/NEWS
usr/share/licenses/iscan-plugin-gt-s650/
usr/share/licenses/iscan-plugin-gt-s650/AVASYSPL

As an aside...I have trouble understand how the source download works as if I try to run makepkg on the PKGFILE and install script locally the download fails... running install with yaourt works though.

I'll reboot now, incase things are different after a fresh start, last time I manually installed it started working after a reboot, I think

Dude-man

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Registered: 2012-11-17

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] iscan epson perfection V19 "not recognised"

Just did a fresh install of the new AUR package on new virtual machine image that I'd not manually fiddled with... and iscane and xsane worked fine...

So I'll try and remove all traces of iscan on my main arch setup and reinstall... but I'll mark it as solved
[EDIT]
forgot to remove the /usr/var/lib/iscan/interpreter as there where lots of conflicking registered lines in there.
Now with fresh install of all iscan and the new plugin it works great.
[/EDIT]
Thanks for your help

Last edited by Dude-man (2015-11-08 11:39:55)