[sane-devel] NO scanner is now recognized. :(

[Nicolas Martin]

Could you describe a little bit more what was the issue with grayscale
scan on MX310 ?

BTW, B&W is currently not supported on this model, some more details
about how you were proceeding would be useful to step further.

Nicolas

Le lundi 27 septembre 2010 à 14:36 -0400, m. allan noah a écrit :
> I don't see any indication that grayscale or binary modes have been
> added to the MX310 (pixma) backend. It is possible that the backend
> only exposes the actual capabilites of the scanner.- hopefully one of
> the pixma authors can comment further.
> 
> allan
> 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Mr Fair Go <mrfairgo at mrfairgo.com> wrote:
> >>> I compiled and installed the latest sane-backends-1.0.21 and tried to
> >>> use it with a Canon DR-2010C scanner,
> >
> > G'day!
> >
> > I have a Canon  MX310 which was scanning OK, but only in colour.  There was
> > some sort of bug in Greyscale and B&W.  I attempted to "compile and install"
> > the newer sane backends also, but as a newbie I clearly did something wrong,
> > because now none of my Linux scanning software will find the Canon or any
> > other scanner (I have 3).  I even uninstalled and reinstalled SANE and
> > gscan2pdf via the Package Manager, but still "
> >
> > Can someone point me to a very basic Linux how-to that explains for a newbie
> > exactly how to "compile and install" with Linux?  Everything I look at
> > assumes I have more knowledge about "compiling" than I actually have.
> >
> > Running LinuxMint 9 (Isadora) which is built on Ubuntu, for nearly a year
> > now.  Up to this point upgrading and installing packages via Package Manager
> > has been adequate for my needs, but the newer version is not available this
> > way, thus I attempted the more challenging route, but can not find
> > "instructions" anywhere.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mr Fair Go
> >
> >
> > (They call me "Mr Fair Go")
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> >
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Ori Koren <ori at paperact.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>
> >> wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I compiled and installed the latest sane-backends-1.0.21 and tried to
> >> >> use it with a Canon DR-2010C scanner,
> >> >> but the scanner is not recognized (by scanadf -L, or scanimage -L).
> >> >> sane-find-scanner and lsusb can see the device.
> >>
> >> <snipped>
> >>
> >> >> Am I missing some option in one of the config files?
> >>
> >> <snipped>
> >>
> >> >> I am using an ubuntu 8.04.3. The libusb-0.1-4, libusb-dev versions are
> >> >> both 2:0.1.12-8
> >> >
> >> > What about permissions? Did you try as root also? And is the backend in
> >> > question enabled in your sane config?
> >> >
> >>
> >> OK, it's working now.
> >> The thing that was missing was to add "canon_dr" to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> >>
> >> > Simon
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ori
> >>
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