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To my disappointment and in addition to many other difficulties popped up after upgrading Mageia 6 to 7, the perfectly functioning Epson V300 scanned does not respond any more after Mageia 7 fresh install.
I did follow the instructions on my previous post re: Epson scanner, yet, I did not have any success .
I'll appreciate any help
JJF

But you don't mention what you did until now in particular and we should try to guess that ?
So you followed viewtopic.php?p=45354#p45354 - which of those packages did you install until now ?
FWIW, you can still check the mentioned wiki page in the page history: https://wiki.mageia.org/mw-en/index.php ... ldid=17574

The link pointed and explain how to install Epson V370 . Yet mine is V300 perfection.
Here is what I tried before posing this reply:


The System consists of
Mageia 7 fresh install on top of fresh install of windows 7 , Plasma DT.
Added Cinnamon DT : urpmi task-cinnamon
System behave normally

Trying to install the scanner using MCC

1. While the scanner is connected and "on" I rebooted the computer
2. Openned MCC > hardware > Set up scanner .
3. "Yes" to the question :"Do you want to install the SANE packages?
4. Message: "The following scanner
- Epson flatbed scanner
is available on your system."

5. Quit MCC hardware


6. Menue> Graphics> XSane-Scanning
7. Message Header is "xsnae 0.999" "Scanning for devices"
8. 4 windows opened: xsane 0.999:003, Preview:003, Standard options : 003 , Histogram : 003
9. Pressed "Acquire preview" on the Preview :003 window.
10. Message: "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument".
11. Closed all opened windows

Tried Simple scan
12. Menue> Graphics> Simple scan > Simple scan window opened.
13. Pressed Scan button on the top left window: Message "Contacting scanner" for ~ 3 minutes than got a message :"Failed to scan. Unable to start scan"

MCC > Browse an configure hardware > Scanner >
EPSON Scanner > Vendor ID:0x04b8 > Device ID: 0x0131

At this point I did not proceed with instruction suggested on my previuos post

Apparently Mageia 7 is not mature enough vis a vis scanner installation

Please advice
JJF

JJF wrote:Apparently Mageia 7 is not mature enough vis a vis scanner installation

Yes, that's probably what the issue is

Can you post the output as root of

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scanimage -L
sane-find-scanner -v

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scanimage -L
device `epson:libusb:002:003' is a Epson  flatbed scanner


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sane-find-scanner
This is sane-find-scanner from sane-backends 1.0.27

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

searching for SCSI scanners:
checking /dev/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg0... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg1... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg2... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg3... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg4... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg5... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg6... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg7... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg8... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sg9... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sga... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgb... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgc... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgd... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sge... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgf... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgg... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgh... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgi... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgj... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgk... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgl... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgm... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgn... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgo... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgp... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgq... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgr... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgs... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgt... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgu... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgv... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgw... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgx... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgy... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/sgz... failed to open (Invalid argument)
  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
  # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
  # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".

searching for USB scanners:
checking /dev/usb/scanner... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner0... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner1... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner2... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner3... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner4... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner7... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner8... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner9... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner10... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner11... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner12... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner13... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner14... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usb/scanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner0... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner1... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner2... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner3... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner4... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner5... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner6... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner7... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner8... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner9... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner10... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner11... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner12... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner13... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner14... failed to open (Invalid argument)
checking /dev/usbscanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument)
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0131 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:002:003
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.
done


Thanks
JJF

If you run xsane or simple-scan as root, is it the same error ?

xsane as root results in the following message:

You try to run XSane as ROOT, that really is DANGEROUS!

I pressed

"Continue at your own risk

After a while the Xsane windows opened where I selected Epson and pressed OK
The 4 Xsane windows opened as attached
I than pressed

Scan

Resulting in the following error message

Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

Where do I have to go from here??
Tkd JJF

Further to my previous post , on the root terminal typed

simple-scan

A message

dconf-WARNING **: 09:16:19.816: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

and the attached window appeared
I pressed the top left scan button and got the message:

Failed to scan
Unable to start scan

Here is where I am stuck

Tks JJF

I'll appreciate if one can guide me as to how to remove all previous files and/or packages related to Epson scanner install so that I'll be able to start new scanner setup from scratch?
JJF