[sane-devel] blank page scanned with CanoScan LiDE25

[m. allan noah]

run 'lshal' and see if the scanner is anywhere in that long list....

allan

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Y P <yellow.penguin at edpnet.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:39:43AM -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
>> gentlemen- we have led YP astray. It seems that recent Ubuntu and
>> Fedora no longer install udev rules, but rather, use ConsoleKit and
>> hal to manage device access.
>>
>> look around in /usr/share/hal/fdi for some sort of libsane.fdi file.
>
> OK, the directory exist.
> But no libsane.fdi there.
> It's elsewhere... see more below.
>
>> Verify that the scanner's usb vendor and device ids are in that file.
>> If they are, then perhaps the hal fdi cache is corrupt, see ubuntu bug
>> #211708 for a possible fix.
>
> On my Hardy, there is a file called 20-libsane.fdi; the path is:
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/
> and the 20-libsane.fdi file is +/- 210k great.
>
> Content regarding LiDE25 is:
>
> <snip>
>
>      <!-- Canon CanoScan LiDE25 -->
>      <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="0x04a9">
>        <match key="usb.product_id" int="0x2220">
>          <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">scanner</append>
>          <merge key="scanner.access_method" type="string">proprietary</merge>
>        </match>
>      </match>
>
> </snip>
>
> i don't know if that info should be relevant for resolving the problem.
>
> GrtnX,
>
> Y)ellow P)enguin
>
>



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