Bill Davidsen wrote:
Has anyone ever made scanning actually work with FC6 or FC7? I have
been trying in spare time for months, and bought a brand new Epson
perfection 2480 Photo scanner because it was supported.
The problem is that I can't find out how to not load the firmware. One
person said they had it working, "just don't reload the firmware." The
customer help line said no firmware load was needed. But if I comment
out the firmware line in snapscan it tells me to edit the file, if I
omit the filename it doesn't like that, and if I give it the filename
of the firmware it doesn't need (the .bin file) xsane tells me it has
a hardware error loading the firmware.
Tried on multiple Linux systems and it fails on all, but works on a
Windows system. That pretty much lets out hardware.
This is the third different "supported" scanner I have tried, is there
some voodoo to say "don't do that," or is this whole thing still in
the stage where it works or not depending on phase of the moon?
The person who had it working has graduated, and wasn't sure what he
did to make it work, other than "don't try to load the firmware."
Please share with us how you connect the scanner to your computer,
and what happens when you connect it. Your test with Windows is good if
the scanner really worked.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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