[sane-devel] Brother: does not scan

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 07.05.20 um 03:12 schrieb Steven Santos:
> Hey, I wrote that page!
>
> Did you try using the updated version via the ppa listed?

As far as I can remember, I used the PPA version of sane. It was on a friends computer, so I can't look at it.

-Ulf

>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:26 PM Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de <mailto:Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>
>     Am 06.05.20 um 12:11 schrieb AugustQ:
>     > Hi Ulf,
>     >
>     >
>     > did you mean this thread:
>     > https://www.mail-archive.com/sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net/msg01073.html
>
>
>     Yes!
>
>     > In one of your postings you mentioned this site:
>     > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/sane_Troubleshooting#Brother
>     >
>     >
>     > Following this advice I did:
>     >
>     >   2001  ls -l /usr/lib64/libbr*
>     >   2002  ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
>     >   2003  sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
>     >   2004  cat /etc/udev/rules.d/59-udev-local.rules
>     >   2005  sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib64/sane/libsane-brother*
>     > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane
>     >   2006  sudo service udev restart
>     >   2007  simple-scan
>     >
>     > simple-scan starts and detects my Brother DCP-7010. Starting the
>     > scan-process a paer appears on the screens with circles moving around
>     > but then the message appears: could not connect to scanner.
>     >
>     >
>     > No solution, sorry.
>     Sorry from my side too.
>
>     It worked for me as described in the thread with a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04. I too installed ubuntu-unity-desktop and worked from that surface.
>
>     -Ulf
>
>
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