[SOLVED] Epson cx4800 not working after editing epson.conf

[hillmort]

Hi
I just switched to openSUSE. I was using Debian based linux before.
I'm having getting my scanner to work, It is an epson cx4800.

I know that it works with sane because I was using it before, on my other systems it was just a matter of changing epson.conf :

# epson.conf
#
# here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend
#
# SCSI scanner:
scsi EPSON
# for the GT-6500:
scsi "EPSON SC"
#
# Parallel port scanner:
#pio 0x278
#pio 0x378
#pio 0x3BC
#
# USB scanner:
# There are two different methods of configuring a USB scanner: libusb and the kernel module
# For any system with libusb support (which is pretty much any recent Linux distribution) the
# following line is sufficient. This however assumes that the connected scanner (or to be more
# accurate, it's device ID) is known to the backend. 
usb
# For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command
# usb <product ID> <device ID>
# e.g.:
 usb 0x04b8 0x0819
# And for the scanner module, use the following configuration:
usb /dev/usbscanner0
usb /dev/usb/scanner0

usb 0x04b8 0x0819 is the device ID listed inthe output of lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0819 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus CX4700/CX4800/DX4800 (PX-A750)
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 059f:1018 LaCie, Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 062a:0201 Creative Labs Defender Office Keyboard (K7310) S Zodiak KM-9010
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c216 Logitech, Inc. Dual Action Gamepad
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at43301 4-Port Hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

I am using xsane, and it does not recognize the scanner still, though in the past doing this worked on other distributions of Linux....is there something else I can do?
I tried running xsane as root and it still didn't recognize it.
Anyone have any suggestions?

[hillmort]

ok I managed to get the scanner working by using the GUI yast > hardware > configure scanner.