[sane-devel] Question SANE and Canon Scanner

Kelly Price strredwolf at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 13:28:56 BST 2020


Have you tried Rolf's PPA?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

The -dev packages usually install headers and such that allow folks to
program against libsane.

At worst, uninstall the Mint versions and use the PPA.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:02 AM m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Unable to open device: Device busy"
>
> do you have something else installed that is talking to the scanner?
> like canon's scangear software, or a VM running another OS?
>
> allan
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:28 AM <2bfrank at posteo.de> wrote:
> >
> > Dear SANE team,
> >
> > thanks for a great FOSS project ! Can I bother you with a question, you
> > are my last resort, I tried various forums;
> > regarding the Cannon  LiDE 300 Scanner. I bought it because it is listed
> > as "completely supported" in the SANE list
> > (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON),
> > but I can't get it to work. Here's what I tried:
> >
> > I am on Linux Mint 20 (Ubuntu 20.04 base), and the scanner is
> > recognised:
> >
> > lsusb
> > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04a9:1913 Canon, Inc. LiDE 300
> >
> > scanimage -L
> > device `pixma:04A91913' is a CANON CanoScan LiDE 300 multi-function
> > peripheral
> >
> > sane-find-scanner
> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1913 [LiDE 300]) at
> > libusb:001:004
> >
> > I found out that it works with sane-pixma,  provided by
> > libsane-common_1.0.22-7ubuntu1_amd64 bug
> > I have 1.0.29 installed, so it should be OK too? According to
> > https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/libsane-dev/filelist
> > it is provided by the libsane-dev package, so I tried
> >
> > sudo apt install libsane-dev
> > still no result...
> >
> > simple scan output:
> >
> > simple-scan -d (debug mode)
> > +9,45s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:341: sane_get_devices () -> SANE_STATUS_GOOD
> > [+9,45s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:353: Device: name="pixma:04A91913"
> > vendor="CANON" model="CanoScan LiDE 300" type="multi-function
> > peripheral"
> > [+9,45s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:353: Device:
> > name="escl:http://127.0.0.1:60000" vendor="ESCL" model="LiDE 300 HTTP"
> > type="flatbed scanner"
> > [+13,68s] DEBUG: simple-scan.vala:455: Requesting scan at 300 dpi from
> > device 'pixma:04A91913'
> > [+13,68s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:1676: Scanner.scan ("pixma:04A91913",
> > dpi=300, scan_mode=ScanMode.COLOR, depth=8, type=single, paper_width=0,
> > paper_height=0, brightness=0, contrast=0, delay=3000ms)
> > [+13,68s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:828: Processing request
> > [+14,20s] DEBUG: scanner.vala:889: sane_open ("pixma:04A91913") ->
> > SANE_STATUS_DEVICE_BUSY
> > [+14,20s] WARNING: scanner.vala:893: Unable to open device: Device busy
> >
> > XSane says the same thing. Unable to open device: Device busy
> >
> > here's what dmesg said:
> >
> > dmesg
> > 41353.742838] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
> > [41353.804289] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9,
> > idProduct=1913, bcdDevice= 1.00
> > [41353.804292] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> > SerialNumber=3
> > [41353.804295] usb 1-3: Product: LiDE 300
> > [41353.804297] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Canon
> > [41353.804298] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 486D04
> > [41353.864304] usb 1-3: usbfs: process 20985 (ippusbxd) did not claim
> > interface 0 before use
> > [41353.906525] audit: type=1400 audit(1598002277.392:90):
> > apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="ippusbxd"
> > name="/etc/nsswitch.conf" pid=21004 comm="ippusbxd" requested_mask="r"
> > denied_mask="r" fsuid=0 ouid=0
> >
> > I found in a forum that ippusbxd might be the problem, removed the
> > package, but no result.
> >
> > I also manually added line in file /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf and
> >   /etc/sane.d/canon.conf
> > # Canon LIDE 300
> > usb 0x04a9 0x1913
> >
> > as well as in
> > /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules
> > # Canon LIDE
> > ATTRS{type}=="3", ATTRS{vendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{model}=="1913",
> > ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
> >
> > -------------
> > I'm really sorry to use you as a hotline, but if there are any ideas, I
> > would be grateful;
> > All the Best
> > Frank
> >
>
>
> --
> "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge
> of my hand"
>


-- 
Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
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