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About two months ago I switched from Fedora 4 to Ubuntu 6.10. My scanner, an Epson Perfection 2480 Photo, worked fine on Fedora 4. Today I tried to scan something and I found out that it wouldn’t work on Ubuntu for some reason. usb-find-scanner could find my scanner just fine. scanimage -L also lists my scanner. But whenever I start xsane, I get the message

open of device snapscan:libusb:002:007 failed: Invalid argument

I already installed Epson Kowa’s iscan driver from source and it still wouldn’t work.

After some searching I found this site. I followed the instructions: I downloaded the iscan RPMs and converted them to DEB with alien. After installing the DEBs the scanner works! I had to remove libsane-extras though. That conflicts with the generated DEB files.

[EDIT] I also had to edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and add ‘epkowa’ as entry.