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                        </style><div style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial;"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Most probably I am not the first one to ask that question but is there any way to get a Canoscan LiDE 500f to work via the sane-genesys backed? I tried to add it manually (on my own risk and with a hand at the scanner's plug) to the genesys.conf but it didn't work out.</div><div><br></div><div>The common "sudo sane-find-scanner" delivers:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;" id="isPasted"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">found possible USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221f [CanoScan], chip=GL842) at libusb:001:004</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace;">could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error<br><br></span>Is there anything that I could try?</div><div><br></div><div>With best regards,</div><div>Martin </div><div><br></div></div>