Epson Perfection 3490 Photo [fixed]

[phd]

My scanner had stopped to work after upgrading of Gentoo. Previously, a half of the year ago, there was no problem to use the scanner with epkowa driver. By the way, on the webpage http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL2.do I noted that for my scanner some additional package can be needed like iscan-plugin-gt-f520. The problem is that such a package is not available in Gentoo repository (amd64).

My xsane reverts that cannot open epkowa:usb:002:005.
I also tried to delete some files in /etc/udev/rules.d related to scanner, nothing helps.
What method is currently supported for the scanner mentioned in Gentoo?

Bellow, I pasted my /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and /etc/saned/epkowa.conf.

lsusb
...
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04b8:0122 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 3590 scanner
....

cat snapscan.conf
#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
#/dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-------------------------- SCSI scanners ----------------------------------
# These SCSI devices will be probed automatically
scsi AGFA * Scanner
scsi COLOR * Scanner
scsi Color * Scanner
scsi ACERPERI * Scanner

#--------------------------- USB scanners -----------------------------------
# These USB devices will be probed automatically
# (This will currently work only on Linux)

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 310U
usb 0x04a5 0x1a20
usb 0x04a5 0x1a26

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 320U
usb 0x04a5 0x2022

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 620U / 620UT
usb 0x04a5 0x1a2a
usb 0x04a5 0x2040

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640U
usb 0x04a5 0x2060

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BU
usb 0x04a5 0x207e

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BT
usb 0x04a5 0x20be

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 1240U
usb 0x04a5 0x20c0

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 3300 / 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20b0

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20de

# Benq 5000E / 5000U
usb 0x04a5 0x20f8

# Benq 5000
usb 0x04a5 0x20fc

# Benq/Acer 5300
usb 0x04a5 0x20fe

# Benq 5250C
usb 0x04a5 0x2137

# Agfa 1236U
usb 0x06bd 0x0002

# Agfa 1212U
usb 0x06bd 0x0001
usb 0x06bd 0x2061

# Agfa Snapscan e10
usb 0x06bd 0x2093

# Agfa Snapscan e20
usb 0x06bd 0x2091

# Agfa Snapscan e25
usb 0x06bd 0x2095

# Agfa Snapscan e26
usb 0x06bd 0x2097

# Agfa Snapscan e40
usb 0x06bd 0x208d

# Agfa Snapscan e42
usb 0x06bd 0x20ff

# Agfa Snapscan e50
usb 0x06bd 0x208f

# Agfa Snapscan e52
usb 0x06bd 0x20fd

# Epson Perfection 660
usb 0x04b8 0x0114

# Epson Perfection 1670
usb 0x04b8 0x011f

# Epson Perfection 2480
usb 0x04b8 0x0121

# Epson Perfection 3490
usb 0x04b8 0x0122

# Epson Stylus CX-1500
usb 0x04b8 0x080c
----------------------------------------------------------------


cat epkowa.conf
# epkowa.conf -- sample configuration for the EPKOWA SANE backend
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2009 Olaf Meeuwissen
#
# See sane-epkowa(5), sane-usb(5) and sane-scsi(5) for details.

# Detect all devices supported by the backend.
# If you don't have a SCSI device, you can comment out the "scsi"
# keyword. Similarly for the other keywords.
#
usb
scsi


# For any USB scanner not known to the backend (yet), you may, at your
# own peril(!!), force the backend to recognise and use it via libusb.
# You can do so by the following configuration command:
#
# usb <USB vendor ID> <USB product ID>
#
# SEIKO EPSON's USB vendor ID is '0x04b8' (without quotes). In order
# to find the USB product ID, use lsusb(1).
# A sample configuration for the Epson Perfection 1650 (Epson GT-8200),
# which has a product ID of 0x0110, would look as follows:
#
usb 0x04b8 0x0122


# For SCSI devices not detected, you can add an entry like:
#
# scsi EPSON GT-20000
#
# where the GT-20000 bit corresponds to the SCSI model information as
# shown in the output of dmesg(1) or in the /var/log/kern.log file.


# Network attached devices may be made to work by first installing the
# (non-free) iscan-network-nt package and then adding configuration lines
# as per information below.
#
# For each network attached device, you must add an entry as follows:
#
# net <IP-address|hostname> [port-number]
#
# Ask your network administrator for the device's IP address or check
# for yourself on the panel (if it has one). The port-number is very
# optional and defaults to 1865.
# Note that network attached devices are not queried unless configured
# in this file.
#
# Examples:
#
#net 192.16.136.2 1865
#net 10.0.0.1
#net scanner.mydomain.com

[GWilliam]

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[GWilliam]

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[piewie]

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# sane-find-scanner

# scanimage -L

iscan-plugin-gt-f___: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277117

[phd]

GWilliam, I have used your snapscan.conf and epkowa.conf, and xsane answer is

[snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /usr/share/iscan/esfw52.bin.
[snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf.

sane-find-scanner gives

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0122 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:002:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

scanimage -L gives

device `snapscan:libusb:002:002' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner

[phd]

I noted that the missing firmware esfw52.bin is available in the depreciated and masked version of iscan.
The recent stable version 2.21.0 has not the wanted firmware file. Therefore, to use my scanner I was forced to downgrade iscan. Namely, I added
=media-gfx/iscan-2.21.0 to /etc/portage/package.mask
and
=media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 to /etc/portage/package.keywords (it is already masked for amd64)

PS.
The firmware file can be also found in the cab-archive "ESCAN/LIB/ModUsd.cab" on the original Epson Scanner Software CD-Rom (delivered with the scanner). In order to retrieve the *.bin from the *.cab file, emerge the package "cabextract" and then run in a terminal

cabextract ModUsd.cab

cf. http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/epson ... st-2439206