[sane-devel] ScanSnap iX500

[José Rojas Echenique]

I had the same problem.  It's definitely a permissions issue.  If I
remember right you have to chown a few things to get it to work
without root privileges.

It works great for me now though.  gscan2pdf is excellent.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:46 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you try running as root? It could just be a permissions issue. Also, if
> you built sane-backends to overwrite the system provided version, it likely
> did not overwrite the config files in /etc/sane.d In particular, the
> fujitsu.conf file would not contain the iX500. You can get that file from
> the sane-backends/backend dir where you compiled the source.
>
> allan
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Evan Carroll <me at evancarroll.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just built from the git repos sane-frontend and sane-backend,
>> however scanimage -L is reporting,
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> And, sane-find-scanner is reporting,
>>
>> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5, product=0x132b) at libusb:001:006
>>
>> On another note, I just purchased this scanner on Amazon, and I'm not
>> sure if I should send it back. Is it worth keeping if you intend on
>> using it on a Linux Desktop?
>>
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