[sane-devel] Canon LiDE 50 not working on recently installed Debian Lenny

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 01:31:27 UTC 2009


well, it's not very conclusive- perhaps one of the genesys backend
authors will comment. In the mean time, you might try to upgrade to
the most recent sane-backends release, just to see if there are any
fixes...

allan

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:26 AM,  <sjnz at freenet.co.nz> wrote:
> We got 4 sounds this time. Yes there is a carriage lock on the bottom but
> it is unlocked. I toggled the switch before testing just to be sure.
>
> Once again, I sure appreciate your time and expertise.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PS the log file is an attachment sent separately.
>
> On Tue, October 27, 2009 1:30 am, m. allan noah wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:45 AM,  <sjnz at freenet.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> Well it sounded like the scanner started; it made two short scanning
>>> sounds, then this message:
>>>
>>> h# scanimage > test.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> well, that is something better- does this thing have a physical carriage
>> lock on the bottom? might need to unlock it. If not- try getting the
>> genesys log while scanning:
>>
>> SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 scanimage > test.pnm 2>test.log
>>
>>
>> and lets look at test.log
>>
>> allan --
>> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
>>
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