[sane-devel] Canon 9000F with Ubuntu 12.04

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Al,

Am 23.08.2013 17:47, schrieb Аl Воgnеr:
> Am Fr, 23 Aug 2013 17:17:33 CEST schrieb Аl Воgnеr:
>
>> With a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04 I use
>>
>> sane 1.0.14-9
>> sane-utils 1.0.22-7ubuntu1
>>
>> As user root:
>>
>> ~# /usr/bin/sane-find-scanner
>> found USB scanner (vendor=04a9 [Canon], product=0x1908 [CanoScan])
>> at libusb:008:002
>>
>> ~# /usr/bin/scanimage  -L
>> No scanners were identified.
>>
>> ~# /usr/bin/scanimage  -V
>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.22; backend version 1.0.22
>>
>> Should the Canon 9000F be supported by this sane-version or do I have
>> to compile it myself?
> In the meantime I compiled git and there is no change:
>
> usr/local/bin/sane-find-scanner 
> found USB scanner (vendor=04a9 [Canon], product=0x1908 [CanoScan]) at
> libusb:008:002
>
> /usr/local/bin/scanimage -V
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.24git; backend version 1.0.22

Here you can see that the old SANE backend version 1.0.22 is used. You
need to register new SANE backend (library) as described in README.linux.

> /usr/local/bin/scanimage -L
> No scanners were identified.
>
> Maybe the old thing, that it suddenly works after hours or days without
> doing anything. I know, that this has been discussed before and I have
> no idea who can change this behaviour, but this should get better.
>
>

If you only need the latest git version and you don't want to patch any
code by yourself, you can use my Ubuntu ppa from Launchpad: 'sudo
add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git'.

Cheers,
Rolf