[sane-devel] using SANE with a Canoscan LIDE 30 under mac osx

[Marc Freitag]

Hi Allan,

Thanks for your message. I did what you suggested and got quite a lot
of messages in the log filw (attached) but the result is still the
same... No scanner found!

Any idea at that point?

Marc

On 23/06/06, m. allan noah <anoah at pfeiffer.edu> wrote:
> not that going back to linux would be all that bad :), but how about
> getting a debug log for the plustek backend:
>
> SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L 2>plustek-osx.log
>
> that log should give some clue. if the log is empty, the plustek backend
> is not getting loaded...
>
> allan
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Marc Freitag wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Canoscan Lide 30 which used to work just fine with SANE under
> > Linux. But I had to change my GNU/Linux laptop for a PowerBook and now
> > things are getting more complex... First, the Canon doesn't provide a
> > Twain driver but only some kind of photoshop plug--in. Of course, I
> > don't have photoshop and the application given by Canon to use their
> > plug-in in a "stand alone" way (Canoscan Toolbox) is of very, very
> > poor quality. Anyway, I'd like to use the scanner with all the fine
> > opensource software, in particular the Gimp.
> >
> > Here is what I get, when I run "sane-find-scanner":
> >
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan],
> > chip=LM983x?) at libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00
> >
> > Notice the (I think) tell-tale "?"
> >
> > But then, "scanimage -L" doesn't find a thing.
> >
> > The backend for this scanner appears to be the plustek one. I have the
> > plustek.conf file (in /sw/etc/sane.d as SANE was installed with fink).
> > I have tried different things in this file, including putting
> >
> > [usb]  0x04a9 0x220e
> > device auto
> >
> > or
> >
> > device libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00
> >
> > or
> >
> > device libusb:003:002
> >
> > But in no case is the scanner seen by scanimage...
> >
> > Is there a solution other than buy another scanner (or go back to Linux)??
> >
> >
> > Marc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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> money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
>


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