[sane-devel] using SANE with a Canoscan LIDE 30 under mac osx

[m. allan noah]

not that going back to linux would be all that bad :), but how about 
getting a debug log for the plustek backend:

SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L 2>plustek-osx.log

that log should give some clue. if the log is empty, the plustek backend 
is not getting loaded...

allan

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Marc Freitag wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a Canoscan Lide 30 which used to work just fine with SANE under
> Linux. But I had to change my GNU/Linux laptop for a PowerBook and now
> things are getting more complex... First, the Canon doesn't provide a
> Twain driver but only some kind of photoshop plug--in. Of course, I
> don't have photoshop and the application given by Canon to use their
> plug-in in a "stand alone" way (Canoscan Toolbox) is of very, very
> poor quality. Anyway, I'd like to use the scanner with all the fine
> opensource software, in particular the Gimp.
>
> Here is what I get, when I run "sane-find-scanner":
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan],
> chip=LM983x?) at libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00
>
> Notice the (I think) tell-tale "?"
>
> But then, "scanimage -L" doesn't find a thing.
>
> The backend for this scanner appears to be the plustek one. I have the
> plustek.conf file (in /sw/etc/sane.d as SANE was installed with fink).
> I have tried different things in this file, including putting
>
> [usb]  0x04a9 0x220e
> device auto
>
> or
>
> device libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00
>
> or
>
> device libusb:003:002
>
> But in no case is the scanner seen by scanimage...
>
> Is there a solution other than buy another scanner (or go back to Linux)??
>
>
> Marc
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