[sane-devel] Still can't use CanoScan LiDE 220

[Andrea Vai]

Hi,
Il giorno dom, 03/03/2019 alle 14.36 -0700, Dave Dixon ha scritto:
> The CanoScan LiDE 220 I got when my ancient HP scanner was no
> longer 
> supported does not work with Ubuntu 18.04. I got this scanner
> because 
> the SANE site says it's fully supported, but I have not had that 
> experience. I've been watching this distro for 6 months hoping to
> see 
> something about it.
> 
> Configuration: vanilla Ubuntu 18.04.2 Gnome. Lenovo x260 laptop.
> 
> Symptoms:
> 
> 1. lsusb finds the scanner at 04a9:190f
> 2. sane-find-scanner does not find the scanner, with or without
> sudo.
> 3. Scanner works plug-n-play with a Windows laptop.
> 
> Should I put the scanner on eBay and give up?

Hope not so. I am not an expert, so you may wait for other's
suggestions, but ran into a similar problem with a USB device and
recently obtained helpful hints at


https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2019-January/036524.html

, specifically see the link provided there by Johannes.

Bye,
Andrea