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Found a solution that works for me. I just put the line "modprobe scanner" into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Now xsane works as expected even after a reboot.

Hello Ive tried the correction for my epson 1200 scanner, the strange thing is
sane-find-scanner works,it recognized the epson 1200,but when i do the follow
up scanimage(Xsane) it doesn't recogonize the Epson. Stranger still is works with Mepis.
The diff between the distro's is the dir structure and the Epson libs are more
current in Mepis. One could change the libs in Puppy,don't know if this is the
right approach.Being new at Unix would I have to recompile the Kernel,or
use the Util depmod,insmod to include the updated libs. Right now I am
guessing as to how to fix this problem,any help would be appreciated

Maybe this a dumb question,but it would be dumb if one didn't ask

M_flower

M_flower wrote:Hello Ive tried the correction for my epson 1200 scanner, the strange thing is
sane-find-scanner works,it recognized the epson 1200,but when i do the follow
up scanimage(Xsane) it doesn't recogonize the Epson. Stranger still is works with Mepis.
The diff between the distro's is the dir structure and the Epson libs are more
current in Mepis. One could change the libs in Puppy,don't know if this is the
right approach.Being new at Unix would I have to recompile the Kernel,or
use the Util depmod,insmod to include the updated libs. Right now I am
guessing as to how to fix this problem,any help would be appreciated

Maybe this a dumb question,but it would be dumb if one didn't ask

M_flower

Those are the same symptoms I was having. Did you download and install the scanner.o.gz file that Barry posted? After that you then need to load the module. Also, what version of Puppy are you using?

Hi I did download the scanner.o.gz and followed the mentioned process
cp scanner.o.gz to /lib/modules/2.4.27/usb/
# depmod
#modprobe scanner

I am using Puppy 1.0.3

What output do you get when you run lsmod?

running lsmod
module size used by
scanner 10648 0 (unused)
usbcore 58976 1[scanner usb-storage usb-uhci]

I take it these are the two items you wanted??

Well it looks like it loaded. You could be right about the scanner library. Barry has upgraded the sane library to 1.0.15 (the latest version) for Puppy 1.0.4. My Epson 1250 works with the current library, so I would be interested to know if the Epson 1200 requires the newest library.

Hi thanks for responding , if I change the epsons libs to a latter version, do
I have to recompile the kernel ,that was my orignal question? or can I just
use the Utils depmod ect. Anyway I tried PcLinux os-81 a new distro and you guessed it ,the Epson 1200 worked. What the difference are don't know,well
keep you posted.


Thanks
M_flower

I don't know if a kernel recompile would be needed or not. Sorry Hopefully 1.0.4 will be out soon and you can try that.