[sane-devel] Brother MFC-J485DW "Scanadf -L and Scanadf -V output":

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On 2021-04-08 3:13 p.m., Paul Graff wrote:
>
> Excellent. I should have realized that I would be able to disable the
> genesys backend initially and given that a try. Obviously I should
> have realized that even after reviewing the
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/issues/22 and
> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/464.
>
> I commented out the genesys backend.
>
>  $ scanadf -L
> device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother MFC-J485DW MFC-J485DW
> device `airscan:e0:Brother MFC-J485DW' is a eSCL Brother MFC-J485DW
> ip=192.168.1.28
>
>  $ scanadf -V
> scanadf (sane-frontends) 1.0.14
>
> 1. Would this issue have caused the adf to completely fail to be
> functional through SANE?
>

Not sure actually. I suspect so. I don't know if there are many people
using scanadf.
>
> I would like to start a new thread concerning the adf on my Brother
> MFC-J485DW (Xsane is only displaying a preview for 1 of the 3 pages I
> am trying to scan with the adf feature).
>
> Thank you for the excellent help. I would like to let you know for
> some time I was using an Outlook email account and I could never
> receive messages from the sane-devel list and I did not know why since
> the Outlook email client confirmed the emails had been sent.
>
>
Yes, you can only get one page of preview in xsane.
It is mostly for positioning purposes really.

Cheers,
Ralph