Can't install epson scanner

I'm new to the mac. Have a nice new mac pro but one problem. I can't install my epson scanner. In checking for driver for the mac from epson the only one they currently have is a beta version which even they acknowledge has a lot of glitches. So I clearly do not want to muck up a new mac with a junky piece of software.
I can think of no way around this. Anyone have any ideas?
Scanner is an Epson Perfection 1640SU model.
Thanks,
Ann

About install of scanner. I wrote my question about installing it. Fiddled around with it one more time. It didn't work, I was disgusted. Shut down the computer and went shopping.
Came home, turned on the computer, and lo and behold, up pops a window indicating that the scanner was ready to scan.
And---it was. Works fine.
Maybe, not sure but maybe, once the driver is installed you need to re-boot the computer. It might be worth trying to see if that's the deal with this thing. No guarantees, of course, mine was just a lucky happenstance.

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I have an Epson Perfection 3170 scanner that I am trying to get to work under Arch. I installed the sane and xsane packages and xsane reports "no devices available". I tried downloading the driver for the Perfection 3170 from the Epson web site. They have both iscan-2.10.0-1.c2.i386.rpm and iscan_2.10.0-1.tar.gz available. I first tried compiling the code from the tar.gz package. The ./configure worked OK but the make quickly failed, complaining about some errors in a C function call. I next tried the .rpm file. I unpacked it using rpmextract.sh into a temporary directory and then copied the files to the appropriate system directories. This installed some new files such as /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf, /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1, etc. I added epkowa to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and commented out epson and epson2. Still no luck.
lsusb returns:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b8:0116 Seiko Epson Corp. GT-9400UF [Perfection 3170]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
sane-find-scanner returns:
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
# Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system.
# If using Linux, try "modprobe sg".
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0116 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:002
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 001:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 005:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 004:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 003:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 002:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.
# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
# necessary.
But, scanimage -L returns:
[cbailey@mainpc temp]$ scanimage -L
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
I reviewed various suggestions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sane
I tried "# gpasswd -a myusername scanner"
I looked in /lib/udev/rules.d/49-sane.rules. It already contained the lines:
# EPSON GT-9400UF | EPSON Perfection 3170 PHOTO
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0116", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
I tried adding this line to /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
usb 0x04b8 0x0116
I tried removing all lines from /etc/sane.d/dll.conf except epkowa. Also tried just epson and epson2.
So far, nothing works. scanimage -L always returns "No scanners were identified."
Any suggestions?

Here is some more info. After reading lots of man pages related to SANE, I discovered that there are a few environment variables I can set to turn on to get some debugging info. Here is what I got after setting those variables and running "scanimage -L" again:
$ export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128
$ export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128
$ export SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=INFO
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[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of dll to 128.
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cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/net: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/pio: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/scsi: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/usb: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/interpreter: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/fs-blacklist: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/share/iscan-data/option: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} /usr/var/lib/iscan/interpreter: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:618: [epkowa]{I} ./epkowa.conf: No such file or directory
cfg-obj.c:626: [epkowa]{I} using '/etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf'
cfg-obj.c:371: [epkowa]{I} line: 'usb'
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_usb to 128.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: marking existing devices
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: Looking for kernel scanner devices
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: can't stat /dev/usb/: No such file or directory
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: initializing libusb-1.0
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[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found libusb-1.0 device (0x04b8/0x0116) interface 0 at libusb:003:003
[sanei_usb] store_device: add dn 0 with libusb:003:003
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/003/001: Permission denied
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: skipping device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 003:001: cannot open: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/005/001: Permission denied
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: skipping device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 005:001: cannot open: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/004/001: Permission denied
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: skipping device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 004:001: cannot open: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/002/001: Permission denied
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: skipping device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 002:001: cannot open: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb couldn't open USB device /dev/bus/usb/001/001: Permission denied
libusb: error [_get_usbfs_fd] libusb requires write access to USB device nodes.
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: skipping device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 001:001: cannot open: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found 1 devices
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: device 00 is libusb:003:003
[dll] init: backend `epkowa' is version 1.0.213
[dll] sane_get_devices: found 0 devices
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[dll] sane_exit: exiting
[dll] sane_exit: calling backend `epkowa's exit function
[dll] sane_exit: finished
From those messages I see that sanei_usb found the scanner:
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found libusb-1.0 device (0x04b8/0x0116) interface 0 at libusb:003:003
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: found 1 devices
[sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: device 00 is libusb:003:003
but, then sane_dll reports
[dll] init: backend `epkowa' is version 1.0.213
[dll] sane_get_devices: found 0 devices
The fact that sanei_usb found the scanner doesn't seem to get passed from sanei_usb -> epkowa -> sane_dll
I wonder if this message from epkowa has something to do with it?
backend.c:163: [epkowa][m] authorisation not supported
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the generic usb scanner module is no longer in the kernel. any scanner that used it mus use libusb now. to do this first remove any entry you have in any module loading files that load that module.
next add either one of these lines to your fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb/ usbfs defaults 0 0
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none /proc/bus/usb/ usbdevfs defaults 0 0
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none /proc/bus/usb/ usbfs rw,mode=666,gid=<--newgroupnamehere--> 0 0
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