[sane-devel] Canon LIDA x0 - newbie question

[Doug Mounce]

Sorry to interject, but I have a Canon LiDE30 USB that doesn't seem to 
be supported by sane drivers on the Mac OS X.  Can I confirm that idea?

scanimage locks-up the scanner after moving the scan bar about half-way 
down the page.

scanimage -L returns this message:

device `plustek:libusb:001:002-04a9-220e-ff-00' is a Canon 
N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner

I didn't understand how to read the backend's man page, or if adjusting 
access permissions was recommended.  I don't really know where the 
backend files might be.

/usr/local/etc/sane.d/  contains these lines:

#canon.conf
/dev/scanner
#/dev/sg0

I am new to device drivers and sane, and I haven't gotten any scanner 
to work with SANE.  (An HP device advertised as supported by the Mac OS 
X backends did seem to go a little further with the scan bar, but never 
collected an image file that I could open.)  You might laugh (or 
cringe) that I started looking at SANE in order to get a Ricoh IS420 
high volume scanner working by converting SCSI-2 signals to firewire.

Any advice or confirmation would be greatly appreciated, regards, Doug.


On Jan 11, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:

Hi,

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:41, Alvaro Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I recently bought a Canon LIDA 20, a USB scanner. It readly worked
> on my Linux 2.6 box, but its scan quality is really much worse than
> Windows 98 driver's scan output. It is a dual boot box.