[sane-devel] Agfa Snapscan 1212U, with SANE, on El Capitan

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On 2021-09-08 12:39 p.m., Niels Hutchison wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an Agfa Snapscan 1212U, with SANE and appropriate firmware
> (Snapscan 1212U_2.bin) installed on an iMac9,1. But I can't get it to
> work under El Capitan. The device shows up in a Terminal search
> (sane-find-scanner), but there is no sign of life – no growls, no
> flashing lights, no scanner found by Preview, Image Capture, etc.
> Another partition on the same computer runs Snow Leopard (OS X
> 10.6.8); there, the scanner runs fine. It would be nice to have it
> working on the El Capitan partition as well, to access an updated
> version of Gimp, etc.
> I would like any advice you may give. Below I list some of the
> directions explored so far...
>
Could you give us the output of this command in a terminal as a starter?

SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=128 scanimage -L

We have heard that some recent versions of MacOS have been having 
troubles with libusb and it's possible that this is related.

Cheers,
Ralph