[sane-devel] scanimage works, xsane does not

[Chris Bagwell]

Just a guess since you didn't mention working around following.

Macports is installed under /opt's and only looks for its libraries under
/opts.  I think those twain-sane packages are self-contained packages.

So probably when you compiled xsane from Macports it pulled in the older
sane-backends-1.0.20 from Macports as well.

Can't offer the exact fix for getting Macports to use external libraries but
recommend pinging the Macport maintainer of sane-backends to update to
1.0.21.  That would be simplest.

Chris

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Darren Goossens <goossens at rsc.anu.edu.au>wrote:

> Hi,  Sorry if I am not very knowledgeable;
>
> I installed scanimage and sane on a Mac running 10.6 and it works from
> command line. (http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/)
>
> But xsane, which I installed from MacPorts, which took many hours of
> compiling things, does not find any devices, even though I can scan and view
> images using the command line.  ImageCapture on the mac works as well (ie it
> finds the scanner).  So I am pretty sure the problem must be with xsane.
>
> Here is some output
>
> edr:~ goossens$ 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=0x220e [CanoScan],
> chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:004-04a9-220e-ff-00
>  # 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.
>
>  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
>  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
>  # necessary.
> edr:~ goossens$ scanimage -L
> device `plustek:libusb:003:004-04a9-220e-ff-00' is a Canon CanoScan
> N1240U/LiDE30 flatbed scanner
>
>
>
>
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