[sane-devel] Canon pixma mp280, not sane supported.

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I guess that you don't have the user rights to access your scanner.

Erik,

would you be so kind as you give a clear description of the problem
you faced, and how you finally solved it (I think there may be a more
elegant method, like maybe something with symlink changes).
>From what you wrote to me, it was a problem with the packaging of
xsane and installation using a high-level package manager like
synaptic.

Best regards,
Gernot

> Please try 'sudo scanimage -L'. If this is working, you need to copy
> 'tools/udev/libsane.rules' from your sane's project folder to
> '/etc/udev/rules.d/' and join the group 'scanner'. Ubuntu uses udev to
> recognise the attached devices, please ignore the stuff around
> '/dev/scanner'.
>
> If this won't work, please reinstall sane from source as described in
> 'README.linux' after "Installation". You can ignore the stuff above
> "Installation".
>
> Normally sane installation from source doesn't affect system's sane
> installation and vice versa, instead of some symbolic links, for your 32
> bits ubuntu in '/usr/lib/'.
>
> If any package installation or update might overwrite the symbolic
> links, you only need to create new ones as described in README.linux.
>
> Cheers,
> Rolf
>
>
>
> Am 09.12.2012 12:58, schrieb erik:
>> Hello all
>>
>> First of all, if any replies, please send me a cc as i am not a member
>> of this list.
>>
>>
>> Secondly, I had Sane working brilliantly under ubuntu 10.04 with the
>> backend version 1.0.16
>>
>> now, after doing a completely fresh install of 12.04 i really cannot get
>> Sane to work.
>>
>> here are some proofs.
>>
>> scanimage -V
>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.24git; backend version 1.0.24
>>
>> output
>> sane-find-scanner
>>
>>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>>
>>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
>> sure that
>>   # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>>
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1746 [MP280 series])
>> at libusb:002:006
>>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>> supported by
>>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>>
>> output
>> sudo scanimage -L
>>
>> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
>> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
>> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
>> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
>>
>>
>> Advices from http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux:
>>
>> My /etc/ld.so.conf
>> only contains the line
>> include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
>>
>> locate libsane.so.1 after sudo updatedb
>> /usr/lib/libsane.so.1
>> /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.24
>>
>>
>> Yesterday, I had for one moment the scanner working, then I installed
>> Xsane through the command line, which give me a lot options of which I
>> didnot know which one to choose. Since then, no success at all. Anyway,
>> now installing xsane will mean it will downgrade to 1.0.22.
>>
>> If, one day, I will have SANE running, is there a way to install XSane
>> without downgrading?
>>
>>
>> and a last question, quoting from the README.linux
>>
>> "It may help to set a symbolic link /dev/scanner to the respective device if
>> automatic detection does not work."
>>
>> how do I do that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Erik.
>>
>> Linux ho-erik 3.2.0-34-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 11:11:12
>> UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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