[sane-devel] Canon Pixma MX-925 on Ubuntu 12.04

[m. allan noah]

The author of XSane is not on this mailing list. You might try asking
him directly. If I were forced to guess, I would say it sounds like
you are running a version of xsane that was compiled on a later
version of X-windows.

allan

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Peter Lemkin & MCB <crazybear at volny.cz> wrote:
> Is no one able to help me have xsane work on Ubuntu 12.04?
> This is what I get in terminal when trying to run Xsane in 12.04 Ubuntu
> [14.04 works fine]:
> :~$ xsane
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
> The program 'xsane' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 17713 error_code 8 request_code 155 minor_code 5)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
>
> Any suggestions of what is wrong or how to correct or test further? Thanks
> Peter
>
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>>    1. Re: canon lide 220 (Stef)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:40:00 +0100
>> From: Stef <stef.dev at free.fr>
>> To: Martin Heitmann <heitmann at strategie.tu-berlin.de>,  sane
>>       Development <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] canon lide 220
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>> On 12/02/2015 19:18, Martin Heitmann wrote:
>>> Dear Stef
>>>
>>> It is so great to here that you are working on the lide 220. Have the
>>> same problem. Bought it without checking first the availability of
>>> sane backend drivers :(
>>>
>>> You said that it will take quite some time. Please don't get this
>>> wrong, I am just asking out of curiosity and because I have not your
>>> experience: Do you mean like a month or perhaps 3 months or even a
>>> year? The last thing I want to do is rush you, it is just that I have
>>> to consider for work reasons in how far it is feasible for me to wait
>>> for a solution or if should sell the device again and buy another one.
>>> Again, please don't take this as a kind of pressure, but only as a
>>> question out of curiosity.
>>>
>>> And I have another question. Do you feel certain that it will work in
>>> the end? (at least the main functionality)
>>>
>>> Beyond that I can only offer to help to the best of my abilities if I
>>> should do any tests with my Ubuntu 12.04. But I would need your
>>> instructions for that.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Martin
>>      Hello,
>>
>>      yes it will surely work, and I think it will take at least 2 or 3
>> months due to the time I have to work on it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>      Stef
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