[sane-devel] Canoscan 5600f

Stef stef.dev at free.fr
Thu Nov 1 17:52:27 UTC 2012


On 29/10/2012 20:08, Ludivine Ammon wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use my Canon 5600F flatbed scanner.
> My OS is Ubuntu 12.04 with kernel 3.2.32-02-generic.
> First, I saw that the scanner is detected when I run 'lsusb'.
> As it didn't work with 'Simple Scan', I followed the instructions from 
> this page : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/scanner_usb_non_reconnu
> It means I installed 'libesane-extras' and 'sane-utils'.
> Then 'sane-find-scanner' gave me this result :
> 'found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x1906, chip=GL847?) at 
> libusb:001:003'
> I tried to run 'scanimage > image' and the return was 'scanimage: no 
> SANE devices found'
> and with sudo it says :
> WARNING: Your scanner is not fully supported or at least
> [genesys]          had only limited testing. Please be careful and
> [genesys]          report any failure/success to
> [genesys] sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org. Please provide as many
> [genesys]          details as possible, e.g. the exact name of your
> [genesys]          scanner and what does (not) work.
>
> That's why Iam writing this e-mail.
> I hope I am giving you enough informationto be helpful.
>
> Regards
>
> hibol
>
>
>
     Hello,

     this scanner isn't supported yet. Since it a GL847 based scanner, 
it has to be added to the genesys backend. But since I don't have one to 
develop and test,  I'm not working on it.

Regards,
     Stef



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