AMD64 and Scanners

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 17:18:29 UTC 2008


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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