[sane-devel] Need sane docs

[m. allan noah]

We cannot really help you on the brother stuff, since it is closed
source, and not produced by us. But, we can suggest that you try the
following:

comment out every line of dll.conf except for the the brother lines
you need, and one other random backend (maybe, fujitsu). Then run:

SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L

and see if the resulting noise contains any information that might help you.

allan

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just bought a Brother MFC-J6920DW, and installed the brother linux .deb
> drivers that are "supposed" to let xsane run the scanner.  But xsane
> makes no attempt to access it even if I plug in a USB cable.  It did
> install the name "brother4" in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, but I can't find
> that name referenced in a strace, ltrace, or latrace output.
> There is no brother4.conf from the installation in that directory tree.
> And locate can't find it either.
>
> So IF I could find a step by step of how any of these names in the
> dll.conf winds up being coupled into sane, it would be a huge help.
>
> It is currently being driven by a cat5 cable, addressed on my local
> 192.168.xx.yy network. And the net entry in the dll is not commented
> out. And it even has a web page at that address.  The printer works for
> some definition of work, its said to be able to do 25 pages a minute,
> but in duplex, less than 2 pages a minute. And it doesn't have a very
> black ink, but that is not a sane problem. Just a heads up to potential
> MFC buyers.
>
> URL's are fine.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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