[sane-devel] NO scanner is now recognized. :(

[m. allan noah]

I don't see any indication that grayscale or binary modes have been
added to the MX310 (pixma) backend. It is possible that the backend
only exposes the actual capabilites of the scanner.- hopefully one of
the pixma authors can comment further.

allan

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Mr Fair Go <mrfairgo at mrfairgo.com> wrote:
>>> I compiled and installed the latest sane-backends-1.0.21 and tried to
>>> use it with a Canon DR-2010C scanner,
>
> G'day!
>
> I have a Canon  MX310 which was scanning OK, but only in colour.  There was
> some sort of bug in Greyscale and B&W.  I attempted to "compile and install"
> the newer sane backends also, but as a newbie I clearly did something wrong,
> because now none of my Linux scanning software will find the Canon or any
> other scanner (I have 3).  I even uninstalled and reinstalled SANE and
> gscan2pdf via the Package Manager, but still "
>
> Can someone point me to a very basic Linux how-to that explains for a newbie
> exactly how to "compile and install" with Linux?  Everything I look at
> assumes I have more knowledge about "compiling" than I actually have.
>
> Running LinuxMint 9 (Isadora) which is built on Ubuntu, for nearly a year
> now.  Up to this point upgrading and installing packages via Package Manager
> has been adequate for my needs, but the newer version is not available this
> way, thus I attempted the more challenging route, but can not find
> "instructions" anywhere.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mr Fair Go
>
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Ori Koren <ori at paperact.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I compiled and installed the latest sane-backends-1.0.21 and tried to
>> >> use it with a Canon DR-2010C scanner,
>> >> but the scanner is not recognized (by scanadf -L, or scanimage -L).
>> >> sane-find-scanner and lsusb can see the device.
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>> >> Am I missing some option in one of the config files?
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>> >> I am using an ubuntu 8.04.3. The libusb-0.1-4, libusb-dev versions are
>> >> both 2:0.1.12-8
>> >
>> > What about permissions? Did you try as root also? And is the backend in
>> > question enabled in your sane config?
>> >
>>
>> OK, it's working now.
>> The thing that was missing was to add "canon_dr" to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
>>
>> > Simon
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ori
>>
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