[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 07:07 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote:
> Hi Rainer
> 
> On 2019-12-15 03:43, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > Bruce and All,
> > 
> > On Thursday, 2019-12-12 23:44:38 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote:
> > 
> > > ...
> > > Rainer can you try now with the sane-backends-9999.ebuild, which
> > > will
> > > install the current git version of the backends. I'm hopeful that
> > > having
> > > something at least as recent as the known working version may
> > > work out
> > > for you.
> > Done, but still no joy ...
> 
> You could try rebuilding the backends with the following command:
> 
> EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_SANE_PROJECT_BACKENDS=6b7052c4
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" 
> emerge -av1 =media-gfx/sane-backends-9999
> 
> That will install git commit 6b7052c4, which should get you pretty
> close 
> to the same version of the backend that you originally reported
> working 
> on Ubuntu, which was version 1.0.28+git20190831-xenial0 from the PPA.
> 
> Also, in your original email you reported setting the timeouts as
> per 
> the following:
> >     $ grep '^[^#]+$' *.conf
> >     dll.conf:pixma
> >     pixma.conf:bjnp-timeout=100
> >     pixma.conf:bjnp://new-host/timeout=5000
> >     pixma.conf:bjnp-timeout=100

Don't set the timeout so low (100Ms), set 5000 or higher for the bjnp-
timeouts (on the first and last lines). And if you have a really recent
compile, try adding a line:
auto_detection=no
at the end of the pixma.conf file

BR, Louis