[sane-devel] Schedule for release of sane-backends 1.0.23

[Аl Воgnеr]

Am Sa, 21 Jul 2012 12:48:00 CEST schrieb Rolf Bensch:

> Am 20.07.2012 22:58, schrieb Аl Воgnеr:
> > Am Fr, 20 Jul 2012 22:36:09 CEST schrieb Rolf Bensch:
> > 
> >> Am 19.07.2012 01:44, schrieb m. allan noah:
> >>> There is quite a bit of updated code (and many months) since our
> >>> last release. In particular, there have been some bug fixes to
> >>> regressions in a couple backends, and some major additions to
> >>> others (genesys, pixma, fujitsu, etc). Seems like it is time for a
> >>> release.
> >>>
> >>> Timetable:
> >>> Jul 29, 2012: Feature freeze (only bugs + documentation updates)
> >>> Aug 5, 2012: Code freeze (only horrible bugs + documentation
> >>> updates) Aug 12, 2012: Release
> >>>
> >>> Speak up now if this timetable needs to change.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Everybody with a "new" pixma scanner, especially CS9000F, is
> >> invited to fetch the latest git version or daily snapshot and to
> >> test all functions.
> >>
> >> Please report both, success and problems.
> > 
> > I mentioned it already a few times, eg
> > 
> > Datum: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:14:32 +0200
> > Von: Аl Воgnеr <sane at ml1104.corr.*.*>
> > An: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.*
> > Betreff: Re: [sane-devel] Canon 9000F
> > 
> > I don't know what I could do wrong. The problem exists with Opensuse
> > and (X)Ubuntu.
> > 
> > After compilation _nothing_ works as root.
> > 
> > A few hours later
> > 
> > usr/local/bin/sane-find-scanner
> > found USB scanner (vendor=04a9 [Canon], product=0x1908 [CanoScan])
> > at libusb:003:002
> > 
> > 
> > 2 days later with my last compilation:
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/scanimage -L
> > 
> > "No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something
> > different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and
> > detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please
> > read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ,
> > manpages)."
> > 
> > There have been times, when scanimage -L worked after a few hours
> > and after 3 days. And I did nothing except waiting.
> > 
> > 
> > dpkg -l | grep -i sane | cut -c1-78
> > ii  libcommon-sense-perl  3.4-1         
> > ii  libsane               1.0.22-7ubuntu
> > ii  libsane:i386          1.0.22-7ubuntu
> > ii  libsane-common        1.0.22-7ubuntu
> > ii  libsane-hpaio         3.12.2-1ubuntu
> > ii  libsane-perl          0.03-1build2  
> > ii  python-imaging-sane   1.1.7-4       
> > ii  sane                  1.0.14-9      
> > ii  sane-utils            1.0.22-7ubuntu
> > ii  xsane                 0.998-3ubuntu2
> > ii  xsane-common          0.998-3ubuntu2
> > 
> > 
> > uname -r
> > 3.2.0-26-generic
> > 
> 
> This is an old problem: how to install SANE from git beside standard
> libsane. There is no easy to read manual available.

In the meantime (without doing anything):

/usr/local/bin/scanimage -L
device `pixma:04A91908' is a CANON Canoscan 9000F multi-function
peripheral

It works as user too, after changing /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules


> We should add something like the description below to README.linux. I
> tested this with (K)Ubuntu (10.04, 12.04), LinuxMint (LMDE, 12, 13)
> and Fedora 17.
> 
> (1) Find the location of standard libsane. It's different for each
> distribution. On 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 it is here:
> '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/'. On 64 bit Fedora 17 it is here:
> '/usr/lib64/'.
> 
> (2) Decide where you want to install the new SANE version.
> 
> (2.1) You can overwrite standard libsane. Then you need to do some
> extra configuration for SANE: './configure
> --libdir="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"'. Here you need to use the path
> found in (1). If you also want to replace the binaries, configuration,
> translations, etc. please read './configure --help'.
> 
> (2.2) You can set symbolic links to the new driver. I assume that the
> path found in (1) is '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' and new SANE has
> been installed to '/usr/local/lib/':
> cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/libsane.so.1.0.23 libsane.so.1
> sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-pixma.la .
> 
> (3) Copy 'tools/udev/libsane.rules' to '/etc/udev/rules.d/'.
> 
> (4) To avoid using the scanner with root rights, add your user to the
> group 'scanner'. If this group doesn't exist you must create it (I
> needed to do this in Fedora 17).
> 
> (5) Reconnect your scanner to the USB bus and logoff/login if you
> needed to do (4) or just reboot.

After reading your explanations I don't understand, why scanimage
recognizes the scanner after some time / days? I don't see a permission
problem in this case or something changes the permissions automatically.

I compiled with default values. While it didn't work for a while with
Ubuntu 12.04, it works now without problems, as I described in my
earlier mail.

BTW I have a Nikon LS50 too. How do I compile drivers for the Canon
9000F and the Nikon LS50, but not the other drivers?

How must I change:
BACKENDS="pixma" ./configure


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