said Kate Draven:

| Try grabbing the firmware binary from the windows drivers and have it
| load when you call the scanner.
|
| You will have to check out some howtos to get it right.
| This is assuming it's a firmware loading problem like mine was.
|
| Find the conf file for your scanner and add something like
|
| # Path to the firmware file
| # This file comes with the Windows driver
| # The scanner won't work without it
| option artecFirmwareFile /usr/share/sane/artec_eplus48u/Artec48.usb
|
| Userful Sites:
| https://everythinglinux.org/scanner/index.html
| http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/sane-epson2.5.html
| http://ljm.home.xs4all.nl/SANE-faq.html

Thanks very much -- I'll do this if I can't get the native software to 
work. What puzzles me about it is that the Epson-provided Linux IScan 
application has always worked reliably here, and only now when I invoke it 
does it explode.
-- 
dep

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