[sane-devel] problem with canoscan 5600F

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 12:18:12 UTC 2010


sane-backends 'make install' will not overwrite your existing configs.
so you might need to copy genesys.conf into /etc/sane.d, if you have
built your new version of sane-backends to overwrite the old one.

allan

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Catalin David
<c.david at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> Yes, all operations were ran both as normal user and as root. Stef
> said something about copying genesys.conf somewhere, but I did not
> understand where and how.
>
> Catalin
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:24 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are you doing this as root?
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Catalin David
>> <c.david at jacobs-university.de> wrote:
>>> Hello, everybody!
>>>
>>> It's been some rough times, but I am now back, so reopening this thread.
>>>
>>> I have taken the last git repositories, compiled sane-backends and
>>> tried the scanner. Using sane-find-scanner, the scanner popped up, but
>>> nothing else worked. I tried xscanimage, I tried the xsane in the
>>> Ubuntu repositories (it should use the sane-backends I have compiled,
>>> right?), but it won't find the scanner.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what I need to do to get a scan.
>>>
>>> Catalin
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:21 AM, stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>>>> Le mardi 10 août 2010 02:48:02 Catalin David, vous avez écrit :
>>>>> Hello, everybody!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > This scanner is not currently supported by sane. However, in March
>>>>> > there was a discussion about this scanner, which implied that it uses
>>>>> > a Genesys Logic GL847 chipset. Stef has recently added support for
>>>>> > this chipset to the sane-genesys backend. So, it may be possible to
>>>>> > make the modifications required to support this machine, if you use a
>>>>> > current git snapshot of sane-backends. Perhaps you and Catalin David
>>>>> > can work together, with some advice from stef?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, I was on a vacation for 2 weeks, then I had to catch up for
>>>>> another 2 weeks and now i am back on track.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to see progress on this one, but I am not so sure how
>>>>> much free time I have until the end of the month (due project).
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, I should be able to do testing, when / if needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Catalin
>>>>>
>>>>        Hello,
>>>>
>>>>        I have added this model in the genesys backend by duplicating LiDE 200 in
>>>> SANE's source code. What is needed is to compile and test it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>        Stef
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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> ******************************
> Catalin David
> M.Sc. Smart Systems 2012
> B.Sc. Computer Science 2010
> Jacobs University Bremen
>
> Phone: +49-(0)1577-49-38-667
>
> Hans-Hermann-Sieling-Strasse 2A
> Bremen, 28759
> Germany
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