Getting Scanner to work

[OCTOGEN]

I am a beginner. I want my Epson Perfection 636U scanner to work. I have researched and I find that it IS supported. I give the command cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and I see that it is recognized and identified. Now what do I do next?

Under Multimedia I found something to click on and it did something for awhile, but no screen came up.

OCTOGENarian

[fingers99]

Try

xscanimage

from the command line (with your scanner turned on, of course!)

Let us know what error messages you get (if any).

[OCTOGEN]

After I run the xscanimage cmd. at the cmd. line, I get an error msg. which starts out: "No scanners were identified . . ." and continues.

This is strange cause cat /proc/bus/usb/devices does identify it.

Clicking on xscanimage as a menu item under Multimedia still does nothing.

In a "competing" product called Pclinuxos, when I click on xscanimage it DOES work. So I am not up against a wall here; I can use the scanner, but I would prefer to use it with Knoppix.

Thanks for the help and I await further suggestions.