[sane-devel] No Backends found
Joe Zeff
joe at zeff.us
Thu Jun 25 22:08:44 BST 2026
On 6/25/26 2:26 PM, Kelly Price wrote:
> I think the goal here is first to get scanimage to work using the SANE
> drivers. Once that does, Xscan and Xsane will follow.
>
> So make sure you installed scanimage and if your distro has sane-
> backends, install that as well (it should have if your distro's package
> manager handles dependencies).
What I have installed and on my menu are ScanGear and XSane. Which one
is scanimage? Fedora has sane-backends and they're already installed.
As far as working in a Terminal, I was using C/PM and MS-DOS before they
had gooies. And, I've used scanners many times but never had this much
trouble setting one up. Here's the list of devices:
List of available devices:
pixma:04A91158 canon_pixma:libusb:002:002
airscan:e0:Canon TS3700 series (USB)
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