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That heron is just one big tease

August 5th, 2008 by Reinder

One of the most infuriating things about Ubuntu is the way it will tease you with a system that recognises all your devices, like, say, an Epson GT-12000 A3 scanner, running from the LiveCD, beautifully, but when you actually add, say, an Epson GT-12000 A3 scanner to an installed system, it will make you jump through hoops and tear your hair out. I've installed the sane package (much to my surprise - I'd have expected it to come with the initial OS install, especially because a front-end was automatically installed at that time. Also, sane runs from the LiveCD) and the Avasys drivers that Epson recommends, to no avail.

Oh well... I'm sure I'll get there some day, and in the mean time, it won't kill me to scan from Windows XP for a few days.

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One Response to “That heron is just one big tease”

  1. Waffle » Blog Archive » Save the comic by troubleshooting my PC problems! Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    [...] I moved the studio PC to my apartment, I wrote: it won’t kill me to scan from Windows XP for a few [...]