[Fwd: Re: Help with Epson 3490 Photo Scanner]
Scott Evans
Sorry forgot to reply to all!
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From: Scott Evans <sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org>
Reply-to: sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org
To: Peter Goggin <peter...@bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: Help with Epson 3490 Photo Scanner
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:08:05 +1100
Sorry but I can only answer the second half of your question, the reason it stopped working after the reboot, was due to when it was working, this remained in memory, so once you rebooted it was no more!... I will keep track of your issue as I have a friend who also has an Epson printer that I'm getting an error with the scanner. Oh I may be able to answer your first half, try reinstalling the printer driver (for your model) from the Epson website... see how you go, but if you get an error after completing that like no permission (to use the scanner) then you have struck the issue I have...
I'm a HP guy so I'm not really that familiar with the Epson stuff, only what I've read from the web....
Sorry if I'm zero help on this...
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:32 +1100, Peter Goggin wrote:When I upgraded to the latest ubuntu release and connected my usb scanner Xsane found it and I was able to scan some pages. I restarted my computer today and Xsan does not find the scanner and I get the message: Failed to open device 'snalscan:libusb:001:005': invalid argument. What does this mean and why has shutting the ccomputer down and restarting caused the problem? Regards Peter Goggin
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Peter Goggin
and getting applications to work. The implication was that it was much
easier with windows. This is completely contrary to my experience.
I use XP home with programs such as Power Producer for video editing and
DVD creation. At the beginning of the year my mother board died and a
new one was installed with a clean installation of XP. So far I have not
been able to get Power Producer to work. The manufacturer of the
software says it is a driver issue, even though the l;ates drivers for
all the periperal cards were installed. Windows experts point to the
software. No one wants to own the problem and so I have had to purchase
other programs.
I am gradually putting equivalent application on my Linux box and when I
can find a video editing program like VideoReDo , a good genealogy
program and a photoediting I will thankfully wave goodbye to Windows and
Microsoft.
Every application I have installed on Linux using synaptic package
manager has worked first time and I have never had problems with missing
components.
I would like to thank all those people who have devoted time and energy
to make this possible.
Regards
Peter Goggin
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Aryan Ameri
> ually putting equivalent application on my Linux box and when I
> can find a video editing program like VideoReDo , a good genealogy
> program and a photoediting I will thankfully wave goodbye to Windows and
> Microsoft.
OpenShot is an excellent video editing software, and does nearly
everything I've asked of it.
To install Openshot, add the PPA via software sources using:
'ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge '
or via the terminal using:
'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge'
And then install it using synaptic.
For a photo editing program, have a look at
http://linuxappfinder.com/tag/photo%20editor for some suggestions.
Cheers
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Ferdinand Lehnard
some years ago I moved from Europe to Australia. In Europe we had within the community I was living, people living next door who could help in setup issues. As far as I understand the Linux community here in Australia is still very young and Linux as an OS not very popular yet. Because of the distances it's even more difficult to find together, but it will come.
Each system offers advantages and disadvantages and we should leave it to the individual with its individual preferences. I like my Ubuntu 8.04 and the rest of the family which is also quite happy in using either Ubuntu or Edubuntu, We had some issues, switching from XP to Suse Linux and than later to Ubuntu but they are all solved. All of us are now working on very stable systems either in the business, for hobby or school.
In regard to the editing programs have a look on GIMP for photo editing,, and F-Spot for photo management, if you didn't had a look at it before. KINO or/and AVidemux for video editing are very good so far and meet my needs for video editing. The classical genealogy program in Linux is Gramps, I use Gramps and GenealogyJ.
Regards
Ferdinand
Paul Gear
> ...
> I am gradually putting equivalent application on my Linux box and when I
> can find a video editing program like VideoReDo , a good genealogy
> program and a photoediting I will thankfully wave goodbye to Windows and
> Microsoft.
I don't know whether it will meet your requirements, but i've used kino
quite successfully for basic video editing.
For simple photo editing (like crop, rotate, resize, etc.), i usually
use gthumb, but gimp is better (albeit with a steeper learning curve)
for the tough stuff.
Paul
Chris Jones
>>Subject: Problems with Ubuntu 9.1
>>I use XP home with programs such as Power Producer for video editing
>>and
>>DVD creation. At the beginning of the year my mother board died and a
>>new one was installed with a clean installation of XP. So far I have
>>not
>>been able to get Power Producer to work. The manufacturer of the
>>software says it is a driver issue, even though the l;ates drivers for
>>all the periperal cards were installed. Windows experts point to the
>>software. No one wants to own the problem and so I have had to
>>purchase
>>other programs.
>>I am gradually putting equivalent application on my Linux box and when
>>I
>>can find a video editing program like VideoReDo , a good genealogy
>>program and a photoediting I will thankfully wave goodbye to Windows
>>and
>>Microsoft.
>>Regards
>>Peter Goggin
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Peter, I can understand what you are saying here.
I dual boot both Linux and Windows. I'm currently running Fedora 11 but
my views are the same whether I'm running Ubuntu or Fedora.
I still use Windows XP for work as I do a lot of work from home as I
work in the photographic industry. And despite how good The Gimp is,
it's just not possible to do a lot of the tasks I do via The Gimp. And
anyone who works in the imaging industry and takes their work as serious
as I do, knows this. Hence me falling back to Windows XP. The main apps
I use Windows for are Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Publisher
2007 and Power Producer. Plus a few others.
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I have no issues at all when installing software on Linux. If you do it
properly and follow any required directions, then it should all work
properly.
The people who run into problems are usually the ones that have no idea
what the hell they're doing and refuse to admit it. And therefore they
refuse to do a simple Google search to find out how it should be done.
With Ubuntu, I've found that 9/10 packages are in the repos somewhere
and you should rarely have to dig outside of those.
Currently, with my Fedora 11 system, I have to dig around for some
things as the Fedora repos are nowhere near as vast as Ubuntu's. One of
Ubuntu's great strengths!
But that doesn't bother me because I'm quite an experienced Linux user
and I do know what I'm doing.
So basically, the information is out there, but at the end of the day
it's up to the user and make some effort to source it instead of sitting
around waiting for everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
I mean, you do get your operating system for free after-all!
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Paul Gear
> ...
> I still use Windows XP for work as I do a lot of work from home as I
> work in the photographic industry. And despite how good The Gimp is,
> it's just not possible to do a lot of the tasks I do via The Gimp. And
> anyone who works in the imaging industry and takes their work as serious
> as I do, knows this. Hence me falling back to Windows XP. The main apps
> I use Windows for are Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Publisher
> 2007 and Power Producer. Plus a few others.
graphics packages don't? (I'm speaking here as a graphic design ignoramus.)
Paul
Chris Jones
>>From: Paul Gear <pa...@libertysys.com.au>
>>Subject: Paint Shop Pro3
>>Just out of curiosity, what does Paint Shop Pro do that Linux-based
>>graphics packages don't? (I'm speaking here as a graphic design
>>ignoramus.)
>>Paul
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32bit color depth, time machine, one touch color/fade restoration, Corel
Express Lab, print layout with support for Avery. Just to name a few.
Not to mention a much better and more productive gui layout and toolset.
Don't get me wrong, I still use The Gimp in addition to Inkscape, both
on Linux. But I''m just saying there are certain things that I can't do
and get the same results with not using some Windows software.
Cheers.
Hugo Do Nascimento
32bit color depth,
time machine,
one touch color/fade restoration, Corel
Express Lab, print layout with support for Avery. Just to name a few.
Not to mention a much better and more productive gui layout and toolset.
Don't get me wrong, I still use The Gimp in addition to Inkscape, both
on Linux. But I''m just saying there are certain things that I can't do
and get the same results with not using some Windows software.