[sane-devel] No Backends found

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Fri Jun 26 20:21:58 BST 2026


On 6/25/26 4:58 PM, Kelly Price wrote:
> Okay, try this:
> 
> 1. Uninstall Canon's official "driver"

I know the name of the driver I downloaded, and it's an .rpm.  Dnf 
should find it so that I can remove it, but it doesn't show up.

> 2. Unplug and plug back in your scanner.
> 3. Try this line in Terminal:
> 
> scanimage -v --format=png -o ~/Desktop/test.png
> 
> Let us know the output.  We're basically gathering info here to help you 
> out.

Yes, I know what we're doing here as I spent a number of years doing 
phone tech support for an ISP, and you're doing a good job of it.  Now, 
what do we do about this?



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