[sane-devel] usb scanner still not found

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Sat Nov 30 09:57:01 GMT 2002


Hi,

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:14:40PM -0500, adam wrote:
> after  installing latest sane-backends, along with the 45test3 patch

This patch hasn't any effect on sane-find-scanner.

> [root at alakard rpms]# sane-find-scanner 
[...]
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2206 [CanoScan]) at libusb:001:002
>   # A USB device was detected. This program can't be sure if it's really
>   # a scanner. If it is your scanner, it may or may not be supported by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> 
> its like it guess it sees it, but it isnt really sure :O

That's normal. sane-find-scanner checks the USB bus for devices. If it
finds one, it tries to detect, if it is a scanner. That's not easy,
because there is no scanner class. So the detection is like that: if
it's not a hub and not a mouse and not ... it's maybe a scanner.
That's why there is a warning.

But it's your scanner in this case.

Bye,
  Henning



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