Iscan issues with Epson 4180

[regomodo]

I am trying to get Iscan to work. From watching the output of the build I assume the ebuild brings in the iscan-plugin packages which means there should be little messing about.

However, Iscan refuses to work. It keeps reporting nothing was found.

lsusb shows the scanner to be there, sane-find-scanner see's it, scanimage can't see it and neither can xsane.

Has anybody got experience of getting iscan to work?

sane-find-scanner

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found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0118 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:005
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

lsusb

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Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:0118 Seiko Epson Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

The error dialog from iscan

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Could not send command to scanner.Check the scanner's status

env:
Epson 4180 scanner
sane-backends-1.0.19
iscan-2.21.0
linux-2.6.31.5
gcc-4.3.3
glibc.2.9
x86

[Plug1n]

Funnily enough I have tonight finally got that scanner working natively under Linux after having it since new 4-5 years ago!

Unfortunately you need to install proprietary libraries from http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do after filling in their "form for download"

From my experience the tar.gz does not work as it does not contain or build the firmware libraries libesint43.so.*

So I downloaded the ubuntu packages which were 2 RPMs (!)

I had to extract the files in my root

Suddenly isane finally worked after hours trying all the paths open through portage and a few previous failed episodes

If you do want to build the source with gcc 4.4.1, file pisa_tool.h needs to be patched to delete the first word "static".

Not nice but one less reason to fire up a Windoze VM

[saellaven]

I just bought an Epson Perfection V30. I already had sane installed for my old scanner, but emerging media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-f720 was all that I needed to do to get my new scanner working with it.

[shazam75]

I just bought an Epson Perfection V30. I already had sane installed for my old scanner, but emerging media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-f720 was all that I needed to do to get my new scanner working with it.

This worked for me too - thankyou.

Shelton.