[sane-devel] Fwd: Why will sane-find-scanner detect my scanner, but scanimage -L won't?

Tue Sep 16 23:59:35 UTC 2014

Yep, that was it--thanks again!

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Allan,
>
> That's exactly what I was thinking, but didn't look very hard for it.
> I'll check tonight.
>
> Mark
>
> mark at markdrew.net
> 775-mcdrew0 (775-623-7390)
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:12 AM, M. Allan Noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I bet you have two sets of config files. Sane is using the one in
>> /usr/local/etc.
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Allan,
>>
>> Yay!  I got the debug log you asked for (attached).  Looking through it,
>> the problem seemed to be:
>>
>> ...
>>> [epjitsu] do_cmd: finish
>>> [epjitsu] load_fw: failed to lseek file
>>> /usr/local/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
>>> [epjitsu] destroy: start
>>> ...
>>
>>
>> Sure enough, the file referenced in the log doesn't exist, but I knew I'd
>> put it there.  Turns out it was in /usr/share, not /usr/local/share.  The
>> thing is, my /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf has this in it:
>>
>> # Fujitsu S1300i
>>> firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
>>> usb 0x04c5 0x128d
>>
>>
>> So, it looks like scanimage -L isn't honoring the setting in my config
>> file.  My config file said it was in /usr/share/..., but it was looking for
>> it in /usr/local/share/...  Or maybe, might it be using a different config
>> file somewhere else since I built/installed it from source?
>>
>> Anyway, I soft-linked /usr/local/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
>> to /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal, and voila:
>>
>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ scanimage -L
>>> device `epjitsu:libusb:002:009' is a FUJITSU ScanSnap S1300i scanner
>>
>>
>> I can scan now!
>>
>> Thanks for your help and your time working on this driver!!!  I hope this
>> information helps you continue to improve the driver (assuming you're
>> working on it).
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:37 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Lets get a debug log:
>>>
>>> SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=15 scanimage -L 2>s1300i.log
>>>
>>> then send me that log file.
>>>
>>> allan
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Allan,
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the fast response, but I'd already done that:
>>> >
>>> >> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ ll /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/
>>> >> total 68K
>>> >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 65K Sep 13 22:06 1300i_0D12.nal
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > And from my /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf:
>>> >
>>> >> # Fujitsu S1300i
>>> >> firmware /usr/share/sane/epjitsu/1300i_0D12.nal
>>> >> usb 0x04c5 0x128d
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Can you think of anything else I might be missing?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> > Mark
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 6:08 AM, M. Allan Noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> You need to extract the firmware from the windows driver and put it
>>> where
>>> >> sane can reach it. See /etc/sane.d/epjitsu.conf
>>> >>
>>> >> allan
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sep 14, 2014, at 3:04 AM, Mark Drew <drewmark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> All,
>>> >>
>>> >> I downloaded the latest git snapshot of the sane backend (1.0.25git)
>>> and
>>> >> built it from source according to the instructions in README and
>>> >> README.linux.  Everything went smoothly until I got to the point of
>>> trying
>>> >> 'scanimage -L'.  What I don't understand (and would like help with)
>>> is why
>>> >> sane-find-scanner will find my scanner (with or without root), but
>>> scanimage
>>> >> -L will not (with or without root).
>>> >>
>>> >> When I was using the 1.0.23 distribution from yum repos, I was able
>>> to get
>>> >> the scanner recognized by both of these commands (but the my scanner
>>> wasn't
>>> >> supported at all by that version).  Now I can only get
>>> sane-find-scanner to
>>> >> recognize my scanner.
>>> >>
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ uname -a
>>> >>> Linux PotableLinux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27
>>> UTC
>>> >>> 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> >>> Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Here's the output from sane-find-scanner:
>>> >>
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ sane-find-scanner -v
>>> >>> This is sane-find-scanner from sane-backends 1.0.25git
>>> >>>
>>> >>>  ...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> checking /dev/usbscanner14... failed to open (Invalid argument)
>>> >>> checking /dev/usbscanner15... failed to open (Invalid argument)
>>> >>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x046d, product=0x08ae) at libusb:001:005
>>> >>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5 [FUJITSU], product=0x128d [ScanSnap
>>> >>> S1300i]) at libusb:002:007
>>> >>>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
>>> >>> supported by
>>> >>>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>   # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>   # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary
>>> >>> ports
>>> >>>   # can't be detected by this program.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>   # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices.
>>> Once
>>> >>> you
>>> >>>   # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions
>>> as
>>> >>>   # necessary.
>>> >>> done
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> And here's scanimage:
>>> >>
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ scanimage -V
>>> >>> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.25git; backend version 1.0.25
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ 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).
>>> >>> [mark at PotableLinux ~]$ sudo 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).
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks!
>>> >> Mark
>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> of my hand"
>>>
>>
>> <s1300i.log>
>>
>>
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