[sane-devel] Canon CanoScan LiDE20, SuSE and red faces

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 11:11, Aldo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my partner is not linguistic, so I post the question:
> she's running SuSE 9.0 
> with KDE 3.1.4,
> Kooka 0.41,
> SANE 1.0.10;
> 
> the Canon CanoScan LiDE20 was first recognized by the hotplug and 
> problemless installed by SuSE's YaST2 installer-tool.
> 
> But after a few trials, after she increases the dpi resolution for 
> scanning an image (from default 50 to 600 dpi):
> - the scanned result became red, as red-face as possible
> - and Kooka refused since then to do previews or real scanning.
> 
> We read about a bug in Kooka, but ignore if this come from there, or 
> from the Sane version SuSE installed itslef?
> 
> Note: under another (non-free) O S it works of course, perfectly, even 
> if she scans images on 300 dpi, just to say there is no problems with 
> the LiDE20 itself.
> 
> But:
> - is the problem coming from Kooka?
> - now Kooka is dead and SuSE no longer connects to the scanner, does she 
> better migrate to a newer distrib / SuSE version?
> 
> A last note:
> I tried to find Kooka 0.411 in rpm, to overwrite the broken one; 
> not found.
> Now SuSE no longer connects to the scanner I completely ignore how 
> to help her.
> 
> Aldo (Debian and console-mode + braille only user).
> 
Hi,

As Gerard already suggested, update at least SANE to 1.0.15. as this
version should handle the LiDE20 reasonably well. The 1.0.10 is far too
old. Upgrading SANE within a SuSE system could be done easily -
checkout http://packman.links2linux.de.

Kooka itself as scanning frontend is IMHO not very good. Try use
XSANE. If you need Kooka, then you should probably upgrade the entire
KDE system. Migrating to a newer SuSE is not necessary. I'm running here
a SuSE 9.0 and KDE3.4...

Ciao,
Gerhard