[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner no longer finds scanner

[Jaeger, Gerhard]

Hi,

On Freitag, 21. März 2003 10:39, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please reply to the list, not to me personally. There are developers
> that know much more about the plustek backend than me.

really ;-)

[SNIPSNAP]
> > sane-backends identified as 1.0.8
>
> May be too old. But that's a different problem. Your scanner is first
> mentioned in sane-backends 1.0.10.

Henning is right, you have to upgrade to 1.0.10 or higher...

[SNIPSNAP]
> > I am using 2.4.18.
>
> Should be ok.
>
> > cat /proc/bus/usb/devices reports  the scanner
> >
> > P: Vendor=04a9 ProdID=220e Rev= 1.00
> > S: Manufactures=Canon
> > S: Product=Canoscan
> >
> > I: ------Driver=(none)
>
> Well, your scanner is not detected by the kernel scanner driver. This
> can't work that way. Something is wrong here because you said
> sane-find-scanner detected the scanner at /dev/usb/scanner0.
>

At least fix your scanner-module problems or use libusb instead.
After this, the backend should work.

Gerhard