[sane-devel] Hello World! & having trouble with SANE

[Mike Starr]

Hi. Have xsane installed (it's great) but the following happened:

1st open: Could not detect the scanner upon a network scan.

2nd open: Detected scanner, but then an IO error.

3rd open: Invalid argument

4th open: Invalid argument

5th open: [seems to be stuck on Invalid argument]


So yeah.

Mike

On 5/9/20 8:29 AM, Mike Starr wrote:
> Ok thanks. I'm a little hesitant about adding custom repos to my 
> system but if it breaks again I'll go for it.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Mike
>
> On 5/9/20 12:17 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> Great to hear it works.
>>
>> Instructions see [1]:
>>
>> SANE Release
>>
>> PPA description
>>
>> Ubuntu SANE packages from SANE Stable Source
>> (https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases).
>>
>> Please send scanner related questions to the SANE mailing list:
>> sane-devel at alioth-lists dot debian dot net.
>>
>> If you need the more recent scanner driver from git, you can use my
>> other PPA: https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git.
>>
>> Adding this PPA to your system
>>
>> You can update your system with unsupported packages from this
>> untrusted PPA by adding ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release to your system's
>> Software Sources. (Read about installing)
>>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-release
>> sudo apt-get update
>>
>> - Sedat -
>>
>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:59 AM Mike Starr <starrtennis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok I couldn't figure out how to install any packages from Rolf's
>>> repo/site, but it did remind me to check that I do in fact have
>>> sane/xsane packages installed. For some reason I have Simple Scan but
>>> not those two. Installed them and now it works, super-fast and
>>> efficient, color curves, really cool. Glad it's working. Used Synaptic.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 5/8/20 10:45 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 7:38 AM Mike Starr <starrtennis at gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi, just introducing myself. 31 yo California, Mike, Linux Ubuntu 
>>>>> Bionic
>>>>> (several years *nix experience). Canon MX-870.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can't for the life of me figure out how to get the scanner on the 
>>>>> Canon
>>>>> MX-870 MFS to work. I use Simple Scan and it connects to the printer,
>>>>> but then stops shortly through the scan.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help is welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you and Hello!
>>>>>
>>>> Hello Mike,
>>>>
>>>> did you try one of the PPA of Rolf?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Sedat -
>>>>
>>>> [0] http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-PIXMA >
>>>> PIXMA MX870
>>>> [1] 
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=bionic
>>>> [2] 
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=bionic