[sane-devel] Sane support for Canon PIXMA MG2120, trying to get it to work

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi David,

I just committed the patch to git. Many thanks for your help.

You don't need to extra install the frontends. Latest scanimage and
sane_find_scanner come with sane 1.0.24 backends.

Cheers,
Rolf

Am 19.01.2013 21:05, schrieb David H. Durgee:
> Rolf Bensch wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I prepared a patch to fix 1200dpi scans.
>>
>> First you should install Sane 1.0.24 as described in README.linux.
>>
>> You can accelerate build time with this special configure command:
>> BACKENDS="pixma" ./configure
>>
>> Then:
>> (1) save "pixma_mp150c.diff1" into the folder "sane-backends/backend/".
>> (2) cd into this folder
>> (3) patch the sources with this command:
>>      patch pixma_mp150.c pixma_mp150.c.diff1
>> (4) cd ..
>> (5) make && sudo make install
>> (6) test 1200 dpi scan again.
>>
>> If this patch won't work, please send me an jpeg image directly to my
>> email address.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rolf
> I installed 1.0.24 with the patch applied as per your instructions. This
> did correct the image scan at 1200 dpi for me.  Thank you for your
> assistance in this matter.  I only installed updated backends, is there
> a reason to install the updated frontends as well?
> 
> Now I just need to get Gutenprint upgraded to 5.2.8 from 5.2.6 so the
> unit is recognized as a printer as well.
> 
> Dave
>