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

[Charles Mims]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:08, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks, Using libusb and updating sane-backends to 1.0.11 now has
it working.

Charles