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

[Louis Lagendijk]

Hi Mike
did you check the firewalling section in the sane-pixma man-page? How
are you conncting: over ethernet or over Wifi? If that latter, see the
/etc/sane.d/pixma.conf file for setting a longer delay. Wifi scanning
on Canon devices is sometimes less than stable using the pixma backend,
depending on the sane version....
/Louis
 
On Sun, 2020-05-10 at 09:05 -0700, Mike Starr wrote:
> 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