[sane-devel] Cannon 9000f mark II

[Rolf Bensch]

Hi Zeb,

Instead of upgrading Ubuntu, you can use my ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git (sudo
add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git).

Cheers,
Rolf


Am 23.01.2015 um 00:54 schrieb Zeb C.:
> Thank you Olaf 
>
> I will upgrade tomorrow. It is a relief because the scanner is perfect for my needs.
>
> Zeb
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 1/22/15, Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen at avasys.jp> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Cannon 9000f mark II
>  To: "Zeb C." <zcartist at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>  Date: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 6:24 PM
>  
>  
>  Zeb C. writes:
>  
>  > Thanks Olaf
>  >
>  > I ran the command and my username was in the scanner
>  group all
>  > along. still no devices found.
>  
>  Sorry, I should have read the forum post more closely.
>  
>  FYI, your scanner was first supported in
>  sane-backends-1.0.24.  That
>  means you need libsane-1.0.24.  This version is
>  available in utopic
>  (Ubuntu 14.10).  Seeing that you are using trusty
>  (Ubuntu 14.04), you
>  have libsane-1.0.23 which does *not* support your scanner.
>  
>  You have two options:
>   - upgrade to utopic (Ubuntu 14.10)
>   - grab only libsane-1.0.24 and libsane-common from utopic
>  (and if you
>     have it installed maybe also sane-utils
>  and/or libsane-extras) and
>     install that
>  
>  Furthermore, if you haven't done so already, remove that
>  99-local.rules
>  in /etc/udev/rules.d/.  It is very broken, causes the
>  error on boot that
>  you mentioned and is not needed with libsane-1.0.24.
>  
>  Hope this helps,
>  -- 
>  Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2       
>     FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
>  FSF Associate Member #1962         
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