[sane-devel] Imageclass D530 Scanner Support (New Patch?)

tx gtux at gimpchat.com
Tue Oct 21 14:25:35 UTC 2014


Thanks for the link. It contains some good info. Actually, I've been able
to run scanimage as a regular user after adding the user to the "lp"
group. I do have to specify the device as a command line argument.

My current problem is that I can't use SANE frontend GUIs. Xsane and its
variants are not able to detect the scanner. That's odd because "scaniamge
-L" detects the scanner and so does "sane-find-scanner". One would assume,
if both of those see the scanner, the frontends would be able detect it. I
don't know of anyway to specify the device on the command line when using
xsane, as I do with scanimage. My initial thought was that SANE GUIs were
simply frontends to scanimage. I guess that isn't the case, unless the
frontends just aren't properly interfacing with scanimage.

Perhaps there are still permission issues or perhaps I'm missing something.

The scanimage app works well, as root or as a regular user. It scans at
all resolutions and geometries. My main goal is tobe able to scan directly
into GIMP but I need Frontend GUIs to function properly in order to use
the GIMP plug-in.

~gtux

On Tue, October 21, 2014 8:20 am, Johannes Meixner wrote:
>

> Hello,
>
>
> On Oct 20 21:39 tx wrote (excerpt):
>
>> I am now able to scan as root
>>
> ...
>
>> I guess my issue now is one of permissions.
>>
>
> I did not read all the details in this mail thread but
> perhaps the section about "scanner access permissions" in
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners
> might provide an usable workaround for you
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The best workaround to get those kind of issues out of sight
> is to use the "saned"...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (of course provided you let the "saned" run as root).
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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