[clue-tech] Gentoo discussion was: Distro musings

[Collins Richey]

On 8/1/06, Ken MacFerrin <lists at macferrin.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> [snip]
> > Another disappointing discovery. The Epson CX4200 is an all-in-one,
> > and scanner worked out of the box on Ubuntu. Ubuntu has major udev
> > rule sets for scanners, but USB scanners seem to have been relegated
> > to a "roll your own" project on Gentoo. I've done losts of RTFM but no
> > success. sane-find-scanner reports my scanner, but scanimage, xsane,
> > and gimp acquire  will not work. Not a critical problem, but still
> > disappointing.
>
> There's a few tips listed in these links to get the scanner running:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_EPSON_CX3700_CX3800_CX4200_and_Others
> http://atlee.ca/blog/2006/01/10/epson-cx4200/
>
> Mainly looks like it's a matter of adding the right product and vendor
> id to /etc/sane.d/epson.conf
>

Ther's lots of tips of this sort, but no cigar

sane-find-scanner

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0820 [USB2.0
MFP(Hi-Speed)]) at libusb:001:004

scanimage -L

No scanners were identified.

in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf

usb 0x04b8 0x0820

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

...
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  4 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0820 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=EPSON
S:  Product=USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
S:  SerialNumber=LH2030512211153150
C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
E:  Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=85(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms




> >
> > Also, I was bummed out to find the win32codecs is still masked for
> > amd64. mplayer is pretty much worthless without that. I'm probably too
> > far ahead of the curve running amd64 instead x86.
>
> Looks like only a testing mask for amd64.
> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=win32codecs
>
> The codecs should install just fine with:
> # echo "media-libs/win32codecs ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> # emerge win32codecs
>
> You may also need to add "win32codecs" to your USE flag settings and
> re-emerge mplayer to build in the codec support.

Will try this. FYI, win32codecs does not appear in the list of USE
choices for mplayer!
>


-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.