Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

[alpa]

I need help to make running my scanner of Epson All-in-one DX3800.
The printer works 100% ok, but scanner is still not working.
I followed all helps I found on web, I installed iscan from Epson, I installed sane, usblib, xsane...
I am confused.
When I search for usb scanner I use sane-find scanner I see:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x0b05, product=0x4202) at libusb:001:003
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0818 [USB MFP]) at libusb:001:002
But when I start xsane I have error message "no devices available".
Somebody could help me ?
Somebody already solve my problem with DX3800?
Where is a clean how-to to help me in make my scanner running ?

Alpa

[master_b]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

Hi Alpha

I'm also having scaner problems with my Brother DCP 115C multi-function.

Scanner will only work as Root - have you tried running xsane/kooka as root"

If I try to run xsane as user I get error message "Failed to open Device: brother2:bus1:dev1' Error during I/0"

whereas as user, Kooka says "No scanner was Found"

My user is a member of Group "scanner" and as everything works as root it would appear to be either a permissions problem ( can't figure out for which file) or a missing symlink?

Anyway, sorry to hijack your thread - as I said above, try scanning as root.

Good luck

Bill

Everything else is alright

[alrac]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

Dapper replaced devfs with udev,which is good, didn't bother to provide any user docs, which is lame, and broke scanners all over the place. See if this helps you:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...23749#msg23749

[master_b]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

Thanks alrac

have already tried fix from suggested post - no luck.

lsusb gives:-

~$ lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f9:018c Brother Industries, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

while scanimage -L gives:-
device `brother2:bus1;dev1' is a Brother DCP-115C USB scanner


and sudo scanimage -L gives

device `brother2:bus1;dev1' is a Brother DCP-115C USB scanner


I added an entry for Brother to my /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules file

SYSFS{idVendor}=="04f9", SYSFS{idProduct}=="018c", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"

and now I can load xsane as user and scan. Ditto for Kooka

My problem was incorrect info in the libsane.rules file, using 0x infront of both "04f9" and "018c"

Necessary details from running:-

sudo 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=0x04f9, product=0x018c) at libusb:001:002
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.


Only problem now is that I can save the file OK, but closing xsane gives me a "Failed to create file:Permission denied", even though the file is saved. Kooka saves and will exit without error message.


Hope that this helps somebody else

Bill

[alrac]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

That's great, Bill, thanks. Those little details can drive you batty.

[Renaud]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

Hi,

For the ones who want to use their dx3800 scanner on *ubuntu just open the console turn on the printer then type "lsusb" you should have something like this:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b8:0818 Seiko Epson Corp.

The number 04b8 is the vendor and 0818 the model.

Make sure you have sane installed: sudo apt-get install sane
Then do a "sudo kate /etc/sane.d/epson.conf"
Make the end of your file look like this:
# e.g.:
usb 0x4b8 0x0818
# And for the scanner module, use the following configuration:
usb /dev/usbscanner0
usb /dev/usb/scanner0

Change the numbers with the one from lsusb.

Now kooka should recognise your scanner.

[Thulemanden]

Re: Epson Stylus DX3800 on Kubuntu Dapper

... and some say Linux is ready for the desktop as a Microsoft replacement

I have Epson Stylus CX3200 running.

Anyone not seeing the device should make sure it's turned on else it doesn't see it when starting kooka. :P