xboxboy Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Hello all, I decided to purchase a V300 Photo scanner after much looking around. Time comes to install it and I'm stuck. I already have a HP1315 all-in-one and it works perfectly. I have plugged in the V300, and in MCC it is detected as an Epson scanner. Unfortunately it's not listed. So I head over to get the 'official drivers'. Epson sponsored site...I assume Proceed to the download page, put in appropriate details...I'm running 32 bit. I have downloaded what I believe I need. These being: iscan-2.20.1-1.i386.rpm 486,814 bytes esci-interpreter-gt-f720-0.0.1-2.i386.rpm 381,387 bytes I could not install iscan due to the iscan-sane package being present, this is a known issue, so I have removed it as suggested. When I try to install iscan i get: # rpm -ivh iscan-2.20.1-1.i386.rpmPreparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.la from install of iscan-2.20.1-1.i386 conflicts with file from package libsane1-devel-1.0.19-7mdv2009.0.i586 How should I proceed from here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have to use the force option to get my Epson working so try rpm -ivh --force iscan-2.20.1-1.i386.rpm Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) You can --force the rpm to install, as suggested. To see what happens, run as root in a console sane-find-scanner I can also suggest Vuescan (www.hamrick.com), which is a wonderful commercial application, and apparently it supports V300 (as well as most digicam RAW image formats). You can test it as long as you like, but the output will be watermarked. The pricetag is rather steep, but if you want the scanner for serious usage then (IMHO) it's moÏe than justified. Edited August 4, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Thanks guys! sane-find-scanner # 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=0x03f0 [hp], product=0x3f11 [psc 1310 series ]) at libusb:006:002 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0131 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. Ok so it's detected. rpm -ivh --force iscan-2.20.1-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:iscan ########################################### [100%] [root@localhost Desktop]# I assume that means it was installed correctly? rpm -ivh esci-interpreter-gt-f720-0.0.1-2.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:esci-interpreter-gt-f72########################################### [100%] [root@localhost Desktop]# And it appears I could install the interpreter correctly. I loaded up x-sane, and had the option to choose either the espson or the HP all in one. But when I choose the epson v300 I am told access to resource is denied. Is this because I installed the two rpm's as root? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 New information. I can access sane and the scanner when running as root, ie kdesu xsane. So it's a permission/grouping issue. I'm not sure how to resolve it from here. Any help most appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Please type "groups" first as plain user and then as root, and pass the output here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Hi scarecrow. This is as user, matthew $ groups matthew This is as root groups root Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) That's strange... the above command SHOULD list all groups users "matthew" and "root" belong, respectively. Instead, it returns only the primary group... What about cat /etc/group as root? It should return a fairly long list. Edited August 4, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Does iscan run as a regular user work? Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 cat /etc/group root:x:0: bin:x:1: daemon:x:2:messagebus,haldaemon sys:x:3: adm:x:4: tty:x:5: disk:x:6: lp:x:7: mem:x:8: kmem:x:9: wheel:x:10: mail:x:12: news:x:13: uucp:x:14: man:x:15: floppy:x:19: games:x:20: tape:x:21: cdrom:x:22: utmp:x:24: shadow:x:25: chkpwd:x:26: auth:x:27: usb:x:43: cdwriter:x:80: audio:x:81: video:x:82: users:x:100: nogroup:x:65534: rpm:x:101: xgrp:x:102:xfs ntools:x:103: ctools:x:104: messagebus:x:105: polkituser:x:106: vcsa:x:69: haldaemon:x:70: avahi:x:71: avahi-autoipd:x:72: htdig:x:107: mysql:x:74: slocate:x:108: matthew:x:500: lpadmin:x:109: xfs:x:75: and iscan as user returns: Could not return command to scanner. Check the scanners status. Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Iscan can be run as root. Not as user though. In etc/group i believe there should be a scanner entry. Is this correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Ok i got it working now. I had to find the device and who owned it. as root lsusb I found the device was part of group 189. I had to create a user group for the scanner: groupadd -g 189 scanner then add me to the group gpasswd -a username scanner Then I needed to change that group root owned the scanner. chown root.scanner /dev/bus/usb/001/003 I did not figure this out myself, I had the help of newsgazer and blingme from the mandriva irc chat. Many thanks to them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 6, 2009 Report Share Posted August 6, 2009 Adding your user to the scanner group is the normal way to do things, but still I'm surprised your other scanner was working as plain user without setting him the right group priviledges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted August 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 My HP scanner is a all-in-one, not sure if that makes any difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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