On 2016-07-13, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 13 Jul 2016 at 16:34:26 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> On 2016-07-13, peekaa <pee...@email.cz> wrote: >> >> > [dll] load: searching backend `epkowa' in >> > `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane:/usr/lib/sane' >> > [dll] load: trying to load >> > `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' >> > [dll] load: couldn't open >> > `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' (No such file or >> > directory) >> > [dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' >> > [dll] load: couldn't open `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' (No such >> > file or directory) >> > [dll] load: couldn't find backend `epkowa' (No such file or directory) >> >> Why can't it find the backend 'epkowa'? Isn't that the one it should be >> using? Looking through the debs provided by Epson leads me to believe it >> is. > > You are correct, epkowa is a backend sane is looking for because it is > specified in dll.conf. It first looks in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/ > but it cannot find what it needs. It falls back to searching for the > needed library in /usr/lib/sane/ but no luck there either. > >> You did download their tar.gz file and run 'install.sh' without >> error, right? > > install.sh is either doing the wrong thing or there was a user error in > using it. We'll probably never know.
I didn't look at the script to see what it does. Maybe just installing the debs individually with gdebi would be best. > What is more intriguing is that neither the epson nor the epson2 > backends give anything usable and the logs have no indication of what is > causing it. It is also a little perturbing because the L210 is supposed > to have complete support with epson2. > He snipped the very long scanimage -L debugging output at that precise point, I believe (epson2). Maybe there was something interpretable in there. -- Même l’avenir n’est plus ce qu’il était. Paul Valéry
