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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hello everyone and especially Olaf</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you Olaf very much for your detailed reply. I'm sorry I havent replied sooner, but work has gotten in the way.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">First: Scanner is connected and on, of course.</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I did try your suggestion in issuing this command (with and without sudo):</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=127 scanimage -o out.pnm 2> out.log</span></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And this is the output. </div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.510854] [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of pixma to 127.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.511250] [pixma] pixma is compiled without pthread support.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.524624] [pixma] pixma version 0.27.0</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.526495] [pixma] pixma_collect_devices() found Canoscan 8800F at libusb:020:009</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.528125] [pixma] WARNING:No serial number</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:14.528458] [pixma] pixma_find_scanners() found 1 devices</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.429646] [pixma] pixma_collect_devices() found Canoscan 8800F at libusb:020:009</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.430281] [pixma] WARNING:No serial number</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.430551] [pixma] pixma_open(): Canoscan 8800F</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.431110] [pixma] OUT T=4.906 len=16</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.431136] [pixma] 00000000:ef 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.431149] [pixma] </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.448351] [pixma] IN T=4.923 len=8</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.448400] [pixma] 00000000:06 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.448416] [pixma] </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.449773] [pixma] Reader task id=5971 (forked)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.450149] [pixma] Reader task started</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.450442] [pixma] </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.450601] [pixma] pixma_scan(): start</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.450743] [pixma] line_size=1914 image_size=1678578 channels=3 depth=8</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.450880] [pixma] dpi=75x75 offset=(0,0) dimension=638x877</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451017] [pixma] gamma_table=0x7fdf82818a40 source=0</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451154] [pixma] threshold=127 threshold_curve=0</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451289] [pixma] adf-wait=0</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451424] [pixma] ADF page count: 0</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451654] [pixma] WARNING:pixma_write(): count(0) != len(16)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.451802] [pixma] OUT T=4.927 len=-1</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452080] [pixma] 00000000:db 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452222] [pixma] ERROR: EIO</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452358] [pixma] </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452500] [pixma] WARNING:pixma_write(): count(0) != len(16)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452756] [pixma] OUT T=4.928 len=-1</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.452915] [pixma] 00000000:ef 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453065] [pixma] ERROR: EIO</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453215] [pixma] </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453365] [pixma] WARNING:abort_session() failed -1</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453519] [pixma] pixma_scan() failed EIO</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453708] [pixma] read_image():reader task closed the pipe:0 bytes received, 1678578 bytes expected</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.453674] [pixma] Reader task terminated: EIO</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O</div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>[12:55:19.454557] [pixma] pixma_close(): Canoscan 8800F</div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><br></div></div>The difference to the log in my previous mail and above is almost none. This first line from the previous mail is missing now: "Output format is not set, using pnm as a default."</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Debug level was 21 is now 127. The rest is pretty much idential (the usb-scanner was no 010, now 009, the numbers next to T are slightly different). </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Also, checked if I have a .sane folder in my users home folder. I do, and the contents are:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">xsane</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> batch-lists</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> CANON/Canoscan8800f.drc</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> xsane.mdf</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> xsane.,rc</div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The permissions are these: </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp2acc7ad2p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydp2acc7ad2s1">ola@c-f44ce655 .sane % ls -le</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp2acc7ad2p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydp2acc7ad2s1">total 0</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp2acc7ad2p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydp2acc7ad2s1">drwxrwx---<span class="ydp2acc7ad2Apple-converted-space"> </span>7 root<span class="ydp2acc7ad2Apple-converted-space"> </span>staff<span class="ydp2acc7ad2Apple-converted-space"> </span>224 17 Aug 12:58 xsane</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And: </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">ola@c-f44ce655 xsane % Ls -le</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">total 64</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">-rw-rw----<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>1 ola <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>staff<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>16313 22 Jul 15:59 CANON:Canoscan8800F.drc</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">drwxrwx---<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>2 ola <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>staff <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>64<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>8 Jul 20:00 batch-lists</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">-rw-------<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>1 ola <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>staff <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>4256 22 Jul 15:59 xsane.mdf</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpdbb5224ap1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="ydpdbb5224as1">-rw-------<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>1 root<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>staff <span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>5206<span class="ydpdbb5224aApple-converted-space"> </span>8 Jul 19:59 xsane.rc</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div class="ydpc7d32c1cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The folder batch-lists is empty.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Regarding permissions:</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have earlier given the app Terminal (the CLI-program/command-prompt in Mac OS) access permission to entire disc. That is the new permission-features I was talking about.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The process to do that is pretty much this: </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://www.wikihow.com/Give-System-Permissions-for-Apps-on-MacOS-Catalina" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.wikihow.com/Give-System-Permissions-for-Apps-on-MacOS-Catalina</a></span><div><br></div><div>There is no option to give terminal and other software access to USB-devices seperatly, so I'm thinking since the scanner is found, this would not be the issue?</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Also tried:</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Giving read/write-access to the folder .sane in my home-folder, recursive. Mening everything in it is writable by everyone.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Then tried the command </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Packagemanager Brew</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If anyone is interested, the packagemanager Brew, and their package of sane-backends is here:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sane-backends#default" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sane-backends#default</a></span><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The code for the packagemanager (what it installs and where) is on github here (written in ruby):</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/sane-backends.rb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/sane-backends.rb</a></span><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It seems to download the sane-backends official repo from Github. So no difference there.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Anything else to try/check?</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If you or anyone have any more suggestions to check, I'm happy to keep trying making this work.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div></div>/Ola</div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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Den söndag 26 juli 2020 14:04:12 CEST, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@member.fsf.org> skrev:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi Ola,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There aren't too many Mac users out here so don't hold your breath. Not<br clear="none">a Mac user myself but I'll try to help anyway.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">TL;DR: Ask the folks who maintain the sane-backends brew packages.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Apologies for re-organizing your post a bit. I just find it easier to<br clear="none">reply when the significant bits of the logs are inlined.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ola Andersson via sane-devel writes:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I would really like to get my old Canoscan 8800F to work with my<br clear="none">> MacMini Mac OS 10.15.6 Catalina (latest) and when I discovered<br clear="none">> SANE-Project I was initally very happy since my scanner was on the<br clear="none">> list of supported devices.<br clear="none">> Several days later after trying a bunch of different things, the<br clear="none">> scanimage command, or XSANE GUI, it just doesn't work. Any help is<br clear="none">> appreciated!<br clear="none">> Below is a list of what I have tried, but I suspect this is some form<br clear="none">> of permission problem with Mac OS >10.13, that has a new security<br clear="none">> model. For instance developer need to place their software outside of<br clear="none">> protected folders that are usually available on other OS's. Also as a<br clear="none">> user you sometimes need to give apps access to folders, disk and other<br clear="none">> things in the Security control panel. Another thing could be something<br clear="none">> strange in the USB-communication, or that maybe the OS is marking the<br clear="none">> scanner as busy with for some reason ( I have no way of finding that<br clear="none">> out). But theese are just guesses.<br clear="none">> Things I did:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - Installed sane-backends using Brew. Brew is a package manager for<br clear="none">> Mac OS that also installs any other library that is needed, and it<br clear="none">> is regularly updated. This particualar package has support for Mac<br clear="none">> OS 10.15, and installs sane 1.0.30, the very latest version. Source<br clear="none">> is available at Github and the link to Brew shows what other<br clear="none">> libraries are installed. libusb for instance.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you really think it's an issue with changes to the Mac OS security<br clear="none">model, I think you'd be better of talking to the folks that provide the<br clear="none">brew packages for sane-backends. They are sure to be more knowledgeable<br clear="none">in that area. Most of us hanging out here are using Linux ...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Some commands work now:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - man sane<br clear="none">> - man sane-pixma (In the list of supported scanners are my scanner,<br clear="none">> Canoscan 8800F.)<br clear="none">> - sane-find-scanner (output pasted below)<br clear="none">> - sane-find-scanner -v -v (This gives very detailed output about<br clear="none">> all connected USB-devices, incl my Caonscan 8800F , with same<br clear="none">> manufacturer and model ID, but not serial number) as the next<br clear="none">> command.<br clear="none">> - scanimage -L (gives this output: "device `pixma:04A91901' is a<br clear="none">> CANON Canoscan 8800F multi-function peripheral<br clear="none"><br clear="none">OK, at least scanimage is able to find your device. That's good news.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - This command doesn't work:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> $ scanimage --format="jpeg" --progress --output-file="scan1.jpg" \<br clear="none">> --resolution="600" --mode="color" --source="Flatbed" \<br clear="none">> --button-controlled="no"<br clear="none">> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - Same result with sudo ifront. Dunno why.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you get the same results with sudo preprended, it's unlikely to be a<br clear="none">permissions issue but then again I don't know anything about how Mac OS<br clear="none">handles read/write access to the device.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, there may be something with the set of options you pass. Have<br clear="none">you tried scanning with the defaults? That is, have you tried<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=127 scanimage -o out.pnm 2> out.log<br clear="none"><br>and also with sudo in front.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none">and does that produce a good image in out.pnm? If not, we're interested<br clear="none">in the out.log file. Oh, you already included that below. Good!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Installed XSANE(also installed withBrew).<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - Tried scanning with this program, and I get this error message:<br clear="none">> "Could not create file: Permission denied.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I *think* that's xsane not being able to create its "state" files below<br clear="none">$HOME/.sane/xsane/ (or the $HOME/.sane/xsane directory itself). Does<br clear="none">that directory exist? Does it have a xsane.rc and/or xsane.mdf and/or a<br clear="none">*.drc file that matches your device?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - I click Close, and get to the gui, click the button "Get preview"<br clear="none">> and get the error message:"Error during reading: Error under unit<br clear="none">> I/O)".The wording might differ, since my error messages are in<br clear="none">> swedish.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That's probably the same issue you see when using scanimage.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Tried getting debug-info with these commands<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> $ export SANE_DEBUG_PIXMA=21<br clear="none">> $ scanimage > test.pnm<br clear="none">> Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.787160] [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of pixma to 21.<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.788373] [pixma] pixma is compiled without pthread support.<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.788782] [pixma] pixma version 0.27.0<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.791163] [pixma] pixma_collect_devices() found Canoscan 8800F at libusb:020:010<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.791879] [pixma] WARNING:No serial number<br clear="none">> [15:42:34.792158] [pixma] pixma_find_scanners() found 1 devices<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.924269] [pixma] pixma_collect_devices() found Canoscan 8800F at libusb:020:010<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.925280] [pixma] WARNING:No serial number<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.925672] [pixma] pixma_open(): Canoscan 8800F<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.926504] [pixma] OUT T=5.137 len=16<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.926541] [pixma] 00000000:ef 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.926558] [pixma]<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.943538] [pixma] IN T=5.154 len=8<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.943584] [pixma] 00000000:06 06 00 00 00 00 00 00<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.943597] [pixma]<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.944638] [pixma] Reader task id=11001 (forked)<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945097] [pixma] Reader task started<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945377] [pixma]<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945542] [pixma] pixma_scan(): start<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945686] [pixma] line_size=1914 image_size=1678578 channels=3 depth=8<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945826] [pixma] dpi=75x75 offset=(0,0) dimension=638x877<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.945965] [pixma] gamma_table=0x7fb98000ee40 source=0<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.946103] [pixma] threshold=127 threshold_curve=0<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.946242] [pixma] adf-wait=0<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.946380] [pixma] ADF page count: 0<br clear="none">> [15:42:39.946592] [pixma] WARNING:pixma_write(): count(0) != len(16)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This looks like the pixma backend doesn't have write permissions to the<br clear="none">device file. I would have expected `sudo` to "fix" this but there may<br clear="none">be other, Mac OS specific, access controls at play. Again, I guess the<br clear="none">brew folks would be your best bet. They ought to know much more about<br clear="none">this than this Linux-only user of two decades and counting ;-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Output in terminal from command xsane and also trying to get preview.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If scanimage doesn't work for some reason, xsane is almost certainly not<br clear="none">to work for the same reason.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Also tried changing settings in the config-file, and also turned<br clear="none">> them off again located<br clear="none">> here:/usr/local/Cellar/sane-backends/1.0.30/etc/sane.d/pixma.conf. Some<br clear="none">> lines that are now commented out again since they don't seem to<br clear="none">> matter.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - # Dunno what the correct name is for this param, but since my<br clear="none">> scanner is connected with USB, I don't think it is<br clear="none">> this:bjnp-timeout=5000<br clear="none">> - pixma-timeout=5000<br clear="none">> - usb-timeout=5000<br clear="none">> - timeout=5000<br clear="none">> - # Turned off networking<br clear="none">> - networking=no<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As long as you are using USB, the above changes have no effect, AFAIK.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - # This is a suggestion from man sane-pixma, can't see it makes<br clear="none">> any difference.<br clear="none">> - usb 0x04a9 0x1901<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This should not be needed for 1.0.30. The Canoscan8800F has been<br clear="none">supported since sane-backends-1.0.21.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - I have also, per suggestion from man sane-pixma tried this command:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - export SANE_USB_WORKAROUND=1<br clear="none">> - Which doesn't seem to help, so I have run same with a zero in the<br clear="none">> end.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - Lastly I have also tried installing the installers from this<br clear="none">> page, they don't work either.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> - Mattias Ellert's binary installer packages of sane-backends, the<br clear="none">> TWAIN SANE interface and related software.<br clear="none">> - They are very old (over three years) and seems pretty useless,<br clear="none">> even with Gimp.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mattias is no longer updating these :-/<div class="ydpd128b2abyqt4326462179" id="ydpd128b2abyqtfd43832"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> - Also several restarts, uninstalls and reinstalls.<br clear="none">> - Tried two usb-cables.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hope this helps,<br clear="none">--<br clear="none">Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27<br clear="none"> GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9<br clear="none"> Support Free Software <a shape="rect" href="https://my.fsf.org/donate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://my.fsf.org/donate</a><br clear="none"> Join the Free Software Foundation <a shape="rect" href="https://my.fsf.org/join" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://my.fsf.org/join</a><div class="ydpd128b2abyqt4326462179" id="ydpd128b2abyqtfd12288"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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