[sane-devel] Motor movement and then time-out with Canon LIDE120

[willismonroe at gmail.com]

Hi Allan,

Thanks for the help!  I installed the libraries from the PPA, and the
scanner worked perfectly in XSane.  Gnome's Simple Scan wouldn't work, but
I can bring that up with them.

All the best,
-Willis

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:11 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are running an older version of sane-backends. Our development
> snapshots are oddly named, but a recent one would be 1.0.26git. I
> suspect your problem is fixed there. We have a release in a few days,
> and it would be nice to verify. Perhaps you can upgrade in the
> meantime? You might be able to use Rolf's PPA for this, per recent
> posts on this list.
>
> allan
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:40 PM, willismonroe at gmail.com
> <willismonroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I bought a Canon LIDE120 a few years ago and have been watching the
> > development of the driver on the sane-devel list since then.  It seems to
> > have quieted off recently, so I thought I'd give the scanner another
> shot in
> > Linux.
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 17.04, here's the output of an attempt to scan:
> >
> > ➜  ~ scanimage -L
> > device `genesys:libusb:003:006' is a Canon LiDE 120 flatbed scanner
> > ➜  ~ scanimage --device 'genesys:libusb:003:006' --format=tiff >
> test.tiff
> > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> > ➜  ~ scanimage --version
> > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.25git; backend version 1.0.25
> >
> > When the command to scan is sent, the motor makes a audible sound and
> then
> > nothing happens and the command times-out.
> >
> > I know the LIDE120 is listed as supported on the website, and I seem to
> be
> > running up to date drivers...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Willis
> >
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