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

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:14, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
Hi,

again my questions:
Which SANE version?
Which XSANE settings to scan? Preview scan? 150DPI scan?

And please don't answer directly to me, use the mailing list.
TIA
Gerhard