[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner OK but scanimage -L KO

stef stef.dev at free.fr
Fri Jul 15 05:42:53 UTC 2011


Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 18:39:20 yohann at rebattu.fr, vous avez écrit :
> > Le jeudi 7 juillet 2011 22:56:18 yohann at rebattu.fr, vous avez écrit :
> >> Hello all,
> >> first thank you, you did great work with sane.
> >> 
> >> then i have a litle problem to make my scanner (lexmark X1150) works
> >> with
> >> sane, and more disturbing i can't figure out where things goes wrong.
> >> 
> >> first as said in documentation i run sane-find-scanner:
> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x043d, product=0x007c, chip=rts8858c) at
> >> libusb:002:006
> >> so it looks good.
> >> 
> >> then i run scanimage -L but it cannot identify my scanner.
> >> 
> >> Where thing start to get weird is when i'm looking
> >> /etc/sane.d/lexmark.conf
> >> i can see the fallowing line:
> >> # X11xx series
> >> usb 0x043d 0x007c
> >> 
> >> Note that it is the same vendor/product number , it mean my scanner
> >> *should* be identified doesn't it?
> >> 
> >> one last thing i looked at was:
> >> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf to be sure lexmark was present and it was.
> >> 
> >> i don't know if it is important but i'm on archlinux amd64 and my sane
> >> version is : 1.0.22.
> >> One last thing: according to this website :
> >> http://burogu.makotoworkshop.org/index.php?post/2009/07/14/Backend-Sane-
> >> et- Scanner-Lexmark-2- this scanner worked with version 1.0.21 of sane
> >> backend.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> Yohann Rebattu
> >> 
> >> PS: as the site said there are somme french in sane people, you'll found
> >> another description of the problem in french here:
> >> http://forums.archlinux.fr/topic8683.html
> >> 
> >> PPS: i'm not used to mailing list so forgive me if i'm doing something
> >> wrong, but sane website tell it's ok for sane users to post on
> >> sane-devel.
> >> 
> > 	Hello,
> > 	
> > 	there is no 'sane-user' mailing list so this is the right place for such
> > 
> > reports.
> > 
> > 	Ca you run scanimage with debug messages so I can have more data on the
> > 
> > problem you have ? In a command shell do:
> > export SANE_DEBUG_LEXMARK=255
> > export SANE_DEBUG_LEXMARK_LOW=255
> > scanimage -L 2>probe.log
> > 
> > 	then send the probe.log file to the list.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Stef
> 
> Thank you for such a quick answer,
> The debug info from scanimage -L is attached.
> i dont know much about sane, but apparently lexmark driver is loaded but
> doesn't recognize my device
> 
> Yohann

	Hello,

	there was a value deleted from device description (lexmark_models.c). 
This was fixed on 2011-06-09. So if you get and compile the lastest source 
code, your scanner will work. Downgrading to SANE 1.0.21 would also work.

Regards,
	Stef



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