[sane-devel] Re: CanoScan LiDE20 jamming with scanimage

Fibonacci Prower fibonacci.prower at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 08:14:48 UTC 2006


Update: I tried with xsane, and... it still jams. And it hasn't yet jammed
under Windows.

-Fibo

2006/4/5, Fibonacci Prower <fibonacci.prower at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
> First of all, I have no experience whatsoever with Linux, so I
> apologise in advance for any stupidity I might have made, or detail I
> might have omitted. That being said, I can proceed:
>
> I have just installed Fedora Core 5 (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp), and I'm
> trying to use the CanoScan LiDE20 scanner which, according to
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html, is completely supported by
> SANE. sane-find-scanner detects it, but it jams (with the lamps on)
> whenever I try to scanimage, and nothing short of unplugging it from
> the PC will stop it. I reboot to Windows XP (ahh, the magic of
> dual-boot), and it scans perfectly well, not jamming at all (which
> proves that the scanner is working fine).
> I then reboot to Linux, sane-find-scanner finds it again, and
> scanimage makes it jam again. Terminating scanimage gives only a
> "Trying to stop scanner" message, but the scanner does not stop until
> I unplug it. Trying to run scanimage again (with the scanner plugged
> back in, of course) results in "scanimage: no SANE devices found",
> even though sane-find-scanner still sees it.
>
> What can I do about this problem?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> -Fibonacci
>



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