[sane-devel] Canon Pixma MX300 - it may or may not be supported by SANE?

[Nicolas Martin]

Does scanimage -L find your MX300 if you run the command from the root
account ?

Nicolas

Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 14:25 +0100, Adam PAPAI a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to install the sane-backed from the CVS repo. I followed 
> these instructions:
> 
> http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html
> 
> Everything went fine, except when I run sane-find-scanner and scanimage 
> -L I got these outputs:
> 
> 
> root at terulet02:/home/rendszergazda# sane-find-scanner
> 
>    # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>    # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>    # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
> 
>    # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make 
> sure that
>    # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
> 
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1727 [MX300 series]) 
> at libusb:006:003
>    # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be 
> supported by
>    # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> 
>    # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
> 
>    # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
>    # can't be detected by this program.
> 
> scanimage -L
> 
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> The DOCs say the MX300 is supported, but it seems not. What should I do now?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
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> Adam PAPAI
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