[sane-devel] Canon Pixma G2000 support

[Thierry HUCHARD]

Le 2017-08-07 18:28, Iam Droidzone a écrit :
> I've been trying to get the Canon Pixma G2000 to work with Ubuntu
> 16.04.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> sane-find-scanner
> 
>   # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>   # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>   # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
> 
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make
> sure that
>   # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
> 
> could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
> could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1795 [G2000
> series]) at libusb:001:010
> could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
> could not fetch string descriptor: Pipe error
>   # 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.
> 
> On trying 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).
> root at hp:/etc/sane.d# gedit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> 
> systemctl status saned.socket:
> ● saned.socket - saned incoming socket
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/saned.socket; enabled; vendor
> preset: enabled)
>    Active: active (listening) since Mon 2017-08-07 21:16:38 IST; 28min
> ago
>    Listen: [::]:6566 (Stream)
>  Accepted: 0; Connected: 0
> Aug 07 21:16:38 hp systemd[1]: Listening on saned incoming socket.
> 
> Aug 07 21:34:26 hp systemd[1]: Listening on saned incoming socket.
> 
> The printing function is working with gutenprint. If only scanning too
> worked, I could finally get Windows off the partition!
> 
> Could anyone tell me if it's possible to tweak up support for this
> printer? I can provide logs for anything needed. It's a simple flatbed
> usb scanner on a multifunction printer.
> 
> -Droidzone


You may want to try the following line in /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf: usb 
0x04a9 0x1795