[sane-devel] Genesys backend support.

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Wed Oct 26 16:43:05 UTC 2005


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:55:27AM -0400, Tyler McKellar wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu and have Sane installed through the repositories. I 
> also have an HP Scanjet 2300c which is now supported by the genesys 
> backend. The version of the Sane backends that are in the Ubuntu 
> repositories don't have the genesys backend in it. I've tried 

Isn't ubuntu based on Debian? Could you use current Debian packages?
See http://www.sane-project.org/source.html

> downloading the backend source package and installing them which 
> contains the genesys backend but I can't get the driver to work. Under 
> the Sane packages from the Ubuntu repositories I can use 
> sane-find-scanner and it detects my scanner but doesn't under scanimage 
> -L.

Maybe you haven't installed the libusb header before building SANE?
It's in the debian package libusb-dev.

Bye,
  Henning



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