AMD64 and Scanners

Oliver Sampson olsam at quickaudio.com
Mon Jul 21 17:35:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:18 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Oliver Sampson <olsam at quickaudio.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:23 +0000, g wrote:
> >> Oliver Sampson wrote:
> >> > Howdy,
> >> > I've just upgraded my Linux system from the motherboard up,
> >>
> >> congratulations.
> >>
> >> > and there
> >> > are just a couple of hic-coughs left to clear up before everthing gets
> >> > to be hunky-dory.
> >>
> >> so now it is time to 'pat it on back a little harder'.
> >>
> >> > There seems to be a problem with the Avasys drivers and the 64 bit
> >> > architecture.
> >>
> >> problem being?
> >
> > It doesn't work. And it looks like the Avasys drivers aren't supported
> > in the 64 bit environment.
> >
> >>
> >> > I'd like to be able to use my scanner, an Epson Perfection
> >> > V10, (which worked wonderfully with FC6 on my i386 system). Is there a
> >> > way to do this?
> >>
> >> which is serial, parallel, usb?
> >
> > USB
> >
> >>
> >> yes there usually is a way.
> >
> > That's good news.
> >
> >>
> >> what have you done so far?
> >>
> >> 'man sane', 'man xsane'?
> >>
> >> is scanner being recognized?
> >
> > It's being seen using sane-find-scanner. But an attemt to use xsane or
> > iscan fails.
> >
> Have you checked the permissions?

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