[sane-devel] SANE support for PIXMA TS9100 series Multifunction device

[L]

Thank you. The version of sane on Debian does indeed seem old in 
comparison. As mentioned this is Debian 10 (Buster) the latest stable 
release, however, its also true that Debian isn't famous for having the 
'latest and greatest' of packages available.

That being said, it appears sane-backends 1.0.31-4 has only recently 
(20-12-10) migrated to Debian Testing. This seems to be the same version 
as currently used in Arch/Manjaro (which works). If sane/backends is the 
root cause of this issue then it may simply be a case of 'wait and see'.

Lee James

On 20/12/20 5:06 am, Thierry Huchard wrote:
> Le 2020-12-19 05:20, L a écrit :
>> Greetings to all, @List.
>>
>> I have a PIXMA TS9100 series multifunction device – specifically,
>> the TS9160 – which is listed as not yet having been reported to work
>> (or not work) via SANE. In this instance, although not quite a
>> Schrödinger's cat scenario, SANE does both work and NOT work. Let me
>> explain:
>>
>> The device is connected via USB to a Desktop machine which multiboots
>> Debian 10, and Manjaro (current). SANE functionality works as expected
>> on Manjaro but not on Debian – The scanner isn't found either by the
>> SANE interface or Simple-Scan.
>>
>> Canon's ScanGearMP2, however, works as expected on Debian. The only
>> obvious differences are the respective versions between Debian and
>> Manjaro installations:
>>
>>  Debian:
>>
>>      * Canon ScanGear MP v2 -- 3.50-1 (the ONLY version available from
>> Canon)
>>      * SANE: 1.0.14
>>
>>  Manjaro
>>
>>      * Canon ScanGear MP v2 -- 3.90-1 (installed from ArchLinux AUR)
>>
>>     * SANE: 1.0.31
>>
>> I hope to have the device functioning through the SANE interface on
>> Debian, or if ultimately not possible, at least to leave some
>> breadcrumbs for those who may follow.
>>
> You give us the answer in the question :
> Manjaro at version 1.0.31
> Debian at version 1.0.14
>
> Your version of sane on debian is very old. You will have to build the 
> source binary or update your Debian :).
>
> Thierry
>> Thanks in advance to whoever can help with this quest.