[sane-devel] PIXMA Backend Detection Issue

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 14:04 +0000, Cian Walsh wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Apologies if the format of this email is incorrect, this is my first
> mailing list email.
> 
> Anyway, does anyone know who I'd get in contact with regarding an
> issue with the PIXMA backend driver? According to them man docs, USB
> printers should be autodetected, but mine doesn't appear to be.
> Trying to run SANE from a Raspberry Pi running Debian, and connecting
> to a  Canon PIXMA MP282.
> 
Did you try as a normal user or as root?

As root try:
sane-find-scanner

to see if your scanner is vsible on the USB bus at all
When it is (still as root):

scanimage -L

and see if the scanner is accessable as root.

Best regards, Louis