[mdlug] Ubuntu 7.04 and Epson Scanner Success

[Robert Adkins]

It's the little things like that, which turn me towards OpenSuSe than any
other distro on the market. (SuSe has always been really damn good about
things like that, especially laptop support.)

What do you think of their new "One-Click" install system?

If you run an Nvidia graphics card, what do you think of how OpenSuSe will
"reinstall" the driver for you when you do an official Kernel update? (I
fricken love that myself, the less fiddling around that I need to do, the
absolute better it is, in my opinion.)

-Rob

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bart
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:36 PM
> To: MDLUG's main mailing list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Ubuntu 7.04 and Epson Scanner Success
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:49 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I finally got the scanner working Using Ubuntu! I used the 
> directions 
> > here 
> > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=316961&highlight=scanner
> > +epson> as well as looking up the vendor, product and usb id here
> > <http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Anyone> and here 
> > 
> <http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=&model=&bu
> s=usb&v=&p=>. I edited /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules 
> manually to add my model. I had to reboot, restarting udev 
> just didn't work. Presto, there it is!
> 
> 	Okay, sort of. It appears that Ubuntu 7.04 cannot wake 
> a sleeping printer. Also, Xsane cannot find the scanner once 
> it goes to sleep. I've tried manually turning the printer off 
> and then back on, logging off and back on, and rebooting. 
> Rebooting did it, but only until the printer goes back to 
> sleep??!! I switched printers, but that had no effect. I 
> tried my opensuse box and both worked fine. The new laptop 
> finally got here so opensuse it is!
> 
> Best Regards,
> --
> Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
> http://petertheplumber.net
> 
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