On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > I guess that you don't have the user rights to access your scanner.
Erik, would you be so kind as you give a clear description of the problem you faced, and how you finally solved it (I think there may be a more elegant method, like maybe something with symlink changes). >From what you wrote to me, it was a problem with the packaging of xsane and installation using a high-level package manager like synaptic. Best regards, Gernot > Please try 'sudo scanimage -L'. If this is working, you need to copy > 'tools/udev/libsane.rules' from your sane's project folder to > '/etc/udev/rules.d/' and join the group 'scanner'. Ubuntu uses udev to > recognise the attached devices, please ignore the stuff around > '/dev/scanner'. > > If this won't work, please reinstall sane from source as described in > 'README.linux' after "Installation". You can ignore the stuff above > "Installation". > > Normally sane installation from source doesn't affect system's sane > installation and vice versa, instead of some symbolic links, for your 32 > bits ubuntu in '/usr/lib/'. > > If any package installation or update might overwrite the symbolic > links, you only need to create new ones as described in README.linux. > > Cheers, > Rolf > > > > Am 09.12.2012 12:58, schrieb erik: >> Hello all >> >> First of all, if any replies, please send me a cc as i am not a member >> of this list. >> >> >> Secondly, I had Sane working brilliantly under ubuntu 10.04 with the >> backend version 1.0.16 >> >> now, after doing a completely fresh install of 12.04 i really cannot get >> Sane to work. >> >> here are some proofs. >> >> scanimage -V >> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.24git; backend version 1.0.24 >> >> output >> sane-find-scanner >> >> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the >> # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your >> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. >> >> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make >> sure that >> # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. >> >> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1746 [MP280 series]) >> at libusb:002:006 >> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be >> supported by >> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. >> >> output >> sudo scanimage -L >> >> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, >> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the >> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation >> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). >> >> >> Advices from http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux: >> >> My /etc/ld.so.conf >> only contains the line >> include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf >> >> locate libsane.so.1 after sudo updatedb >> /usr/lib/libsane.so.1 >> /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.24 >> >> >> Yesterday, I had for one moment the scanner working, then I installed >> Xsane through the command line, which give me a lot options of which I >> didnot know which one to choose. Since then, no success at all. Anyway, >> now installing xsane will mean it will downgrade to 1.0.22. >> >> If, one day, I will have SANE running, is there a way to install XSane >> without downgrading? >> >> >> and a last question, quoting from the README.linux >> >> "It may help to set a symbolic link /dev/scanner to the respective device if >> automatic detection does not work." >> >> how do I do that? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Erik. >> >> Linux ho-erik 3.2.0-34-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 11:11:12 >> UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org