[SLUG] Epson Scanner and Fedora Core 6

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 11:15, John Allsopp wrote:
> mike drawneek wrote:
> > On Monday 31 December 2007 14:28:40 John Allsopp wrote:
> >> Epson Perfection V350 Photo scanner
> > 
> > or even this
> > 
> > 
http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=Epson&model=+Perfection+V350+Photo+scan&bus=any&v=&p=
> 
> Yers, not sure what that's telling me. Is it saying my scanner is 
> supported by SANE to a 'good' level? Seems fair.
> 
> But what's:
> 
> Perfection V350 PHOTO 	USB 	0x04b8/0x012f 	good 	requires DFSG non-free 
> iscan-plugin-gt-f700<br>overseas version of the GT-F700
> 
> 0x04b8/0x012f : it feels like that's useful, but I don't know what to do 
> with it.
> 
> This "requires DFSG non-free iscan-plugin-gt-f700<br>overseas version of 
> the GT-F700" may as well be Greek. Is it saying I need iscan? Fair 
> enough, I bought the scanner, so I have that. DFSG? 'overseas version' 
> ... overseas from where? GT-F700? I'm not being awkward, I just don't 
> know what all that's telling me.

Non-DFSG = non-free; encumbered in some way. It probably won't be in the main 
repository, but there might be a non-free package you can get. Sorry I don't 
know Fedora; in Debian it would be a matter of editing sources.list and 
adding the non-free repository. DFSG = Debian Free Software Guidelines. 
Determines what Debian considers to be free software. And yes this is Fedora 
so it might be in Fedora, but there's a good chance it isn't.

Overseas version of course means non-US, sadly it is still the center of the 
universe for some people. :|
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