[sane-devel] canoscan 300 scsi scanner not detected

[m. allan noah]

edit /etc/sane.d/canon.conf

put the scanner device file name there.

allan

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Denis Prost <denis.prost at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a problem with my canoscan 300 scsi scanner.
> though it appears in sane-find-scanner output :
> --------------
> ...
> found SCSI scanner "CANON IX-03035B 1.01" at /dev/sg3
>  # Your SCSI scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by SANE.
> Try
>  # scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
> ....
> ------------
> whatever GUI I use (xsane, kooka, simple-scan...), these softwares don't
> detect it, the only scanner they detect is my webcam.
> To solve the problem, I have to do by hand "ln -s /dev/scanner /dev/sg3"
> each time I plug my scanner in.
> But that does not seem to be a very clean solution. Is that normal ?
> Thanks,
> regards,
>
> Denis
>
>
>
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