Help with Epson 1260 USB scanner?

[xenon]

I have an Epson Perfection 1260 USB scanner, which I can't get to work. It gets detected at boot time, but then it's not claimed by any active driver (I'm sure you know what I'm talking about), and SANE doesn't detect it. I have other USB peripherals that work correctly - a printer, a digital camera, a mouse, and anything about scanners is compiled in my kernel.
This is what the SANE compatibility page has got to say about my scanner:

[bammbamm808]

OK I got ya. I just did this. Here's a little HOWTO I've done for ya. I didn't use portage, but got regular sources for the drivers, and did stuff manually. I then installed xsane manually from source, rather than injecting some dependencies to emerge xsane. It works a treat, however.

You will need the following loaded as modules or compiled in kernel:
usbcore
usb-uhci (or ohci, or whatever type of usb chipset you have)
scanner

Then obtain the following:

sane-backends-1.0.11.tar.gz
http://www.mostang.com/sane/source.html

plustek-sane-0.45-5.tar.gz
http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html

Create a directory named 'sane' somewhere

unpack your sane-backends-1.0.11.tar.gz into the sane directory
cd into the new <path-to>sane/sane-backends1.0.11 directory
unpack your plustek-sane tarball into the <path-to>sane/sane-backends1.0.11 directory

Read the <path-to>sane/sane-backends1.0.11/doc/plustek/Plustek-USB.txt and follow it and you
should be set. The instructions are extremely simple and worked great for me. Be
careful as the default /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf file has the device as
/etc/usbscanner0, but you will want /etc/usb/scanner0, I think, so edit it if
need be.

Oh, and I exported my CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS before doing any of the ./configure
steps. Once I had sane able to find my scanner, I got the xsane tarball and
manually compiled/installed that. Then link the xsane binary to ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/xsane to use xsane as a Gimp plugin.

Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions or problem
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[xenon]

Thanks a lot for your support. It doesn't work (yet), though. I followed your instructions, and the ones in the text file you suggested, but sane-find-scanner still doesn't find anything. Summarizing the steps, what I did was:

- Unmerging sane-backends.
- Downloading the needed stuff and unpacking it.
- Configure, make, make install.
- Edit /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf.

Did I miss something? If I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices, the scanner is there with the other USB things I got, but stating (Driver=none). In plustek.conf, I basically just added a path to /dev/usb/scanner0, and nothing else: is more stuff needed?

To be honest, there's something I don't really understand... Scanner.c is there (compiled in), but it won't claim my scanner, so I use this plustek add-on. But how does it happen? Does it need to be used like an external module, like ALSA, for example? I mean, ok, my scanner is here, the driver supporting it is here, but how do they meet? Sorry if this sounds senseless...

Thanks again, I hope I'll finally get it to work sooner or later![/code]

[BradN]

I've found that stuff like this is often better compiled as modules... maybe it will only properly use the scanner driver when you modprobe it after the scanner is found and everything. Try making the scanner support into a module, and modprobe'ing it after (or maybe it will autoload and work properly?).

[bammbamm808]

Did you include the vendor ID and product ID in /etc/modules.conf? I seem to remember that even after editing /etc/sane.d/plustek.conf, a simple 'modprobe scanner' didn't work. I created a /etc/modules.d/plustek-epson file with the following line in it:

Oh and I think some of the documentation give these ID's as 048b and 011d, respectively. I couldn't get it to work unless I used 0x048b and 0x011d in all instances

options scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x011d

Then ran update-modules to have Gentoo incorporate it into my /etc/modules.conf. Only after this did I get it working. Sorry for not remebering this earlier, but I hope it does the trick now.
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MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk
Ryzen 3900x
32Gb Samsung B-die (16GB dual rank x2) DDR4 @ 3200MHz, cl14
Geforce RTX 2070S 8GB
Samsung m.2 NVME pcie-3.0
Etc....

[xenon]

Well, I compiled scanner.o as a module, added the vendor and product IDs, and now it works! Thanks a lot bammbamm808, and thanks BradN too, really!

Now speaking of fine tuning, operations are a bit slow. Not the scanning process itself, but rather the time between the command and the scan - the scanner makes a brief noise, another one, then (after some seconds) starts scanning the picture. Is this normal and unavoidable, or is there a way to speed things up?

And thanks again!

[ejahn1]

I followed the instructions in this thread (multiple times) and when I try to "modprobe scanner", I get

[ejahn1]

oops, I didn't have hotplug emerged. now I can modprobe scanner successfully. still can't modprobe usb-ohci or usb-uchi. What other things do I have to emerge? thanks!

[BradN]

I'm not sure. I usually build the actual USB chipset driver into the kernel.