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

Fibonacci Prower fibonacci.prower at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 16:08:43 UTC 2006


2006/4/11, Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard at gjaeger.de>:
>
> 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?


1.0.17, apparently.

Which XSANE settings to scan?


Ehm... the default settings? I didn't touch anything.

Preview scan?


Yes.

150DPI scan?


Haven't yet learnt how to do that.

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