sane additions to support Epson CX5000 printer

[Troy Carpenter]

Binary package hint: xsane

Every time (and in every distribution) I have to modify a few sane files to make my Epson Stylus CX-5000 printer work as a scanner (it is already "supported" as CX4800 in standard cups, or actually as the CX5000 with cupsys-driver-gutenprint.

However, to make it work automatically with sane so I can scan, I always need to make the following changes. Perhaps it can be pushed upstream for a permanent fix.

/etc/sane.d/epson.conf: append "usb 0x4b8 0x82b" to the bottom
(I expected it to work without the change to epson.conf, but it wouldn't.)

/etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules: add the following at line 480:
# Epson CX-5000 | Epson CX-5000
SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="082b", MODE="664", GROUP="scanner"

After that, I unplug the scanner then replug. It will then be available.

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

This is actually a bug in the underlying sane rather than the xsane frontend, so reassigning. Troy, can you search upstreams bug tracker to see if it has been reported there and if it has, can you open a bug task linking to that bug.

[Troy Carpenter (troy-carpenter)]

I found something close, a closed bug (https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30186&atid=410366&func=detail&aid=304516).

Says it's for an Epson DX5000, but the USB ID's are identical. I don't know if it is in the load used by Gutsy.

[Troy Carpenter (troy-carpenter)]

I've searched the launchpad documentation and I couldn't find a reference on how to "open a bug task".

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

Normally what you would do is to click on the "also affects project" link and add the url, but it appears that LP doesn't recognize Alioth urls yet.

[Clay Weber (claydoh)]

could this be related to #181129?

[Troy Carpenter (troy-carpenter)]

No, that bug is related to permissions. In this case, the Epson CX5000 needs to be added to the sane database, and in the udev sane rules. Without that, not even root can see the scanner device (the printer side shows up just fine).