[sane-devel] Fwd: Why will sane-find-scanner detect my scanner, but scanimage -L won't?

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 13:37:13 UTC 2014


Lets get a debug log:

SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=15 scanimage -L 2>s1300i.log

then send me that log file.

allan

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Allan,
>
> Thanks for the fast response, but I'd already done that:
>
>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ ll /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/
>> total 68K
>> -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 65K Sep 13 22:06 1300i_0D12.nal
>
>
> And from my /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf:
>
>> # Fujitsu S1300i
>> firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
>> usb 0x04c5 0x128d
>
>
> Can you think of anything else I might be missing?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:08 AM, M. Allan Noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You need to extract the firmware from the windows driver and put it where
>> sane can reach it. See /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 3:04 AM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I downloaded the latest git snapshot of the sane backend (1.0.25git) and
>> built it from source according to the instructions in README and
>> README.linux.  Everything went smoothly until I got to the point of trying
>> 'scanimage -L'.  What I don't understand (and would like help with) is why
>> sane-find-scanner will find my scanner (with or without root), but scanimage
>> -L will not (with or without root).
>>
>> When I was using the 1.0.23 distribution from yum repos, I was able to get
>> the scanner recognized by both of these commands (but the my scanner wasn't
>> supported at all by that version).  Now I can only get sane-find-scanner to
>> recognize my scanner.
>>
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ uname -a
>>> Linux PotableLinux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC
>>> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
>>
>>
>> Here's the output from sane-find-scanner:
>>
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ sane-find-scanner -v
>>> This is sane-find-scanner from sane-backends 1.0.25git
>>>
>>>  ...
>>>
>>> checking /dev/usbscanner14... failed to open (Invalid argument)
>>> checking /dev/usbscanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument)
>>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x046d, product=0x08ae) at libusb:001:005
>>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [FUJITSU], product=0x128d [ScanSnap
>>> S1300i]) at libusb:002:007
>>>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>>> supported by
>>>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>>>
>>>   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>>>
>>>   # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
>>> ports
>>>   # can't be detected by this program.
>>>
>>>   # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once
>>> you
>>>   # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
>>>   # necessary.
>>> done
>>
>>
>> And here's scanimage:
>>
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ scanimage -V
>>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.25git; backend version 1.0.25
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ 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).
>>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ 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).
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>>
>>
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