On Monday 15 August 2016 13:23:36 didier gaumet wrote: > Le 15/08/2016 à 12:42, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > Thanks, didier. That is nice to know. > > > > So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in > > sorting that out. But are you suggesting that I would do better to > > backport from Stretch? I had decided that the tar ball would be simpler > > and more sure. But perhaps now is the time to learn to backport!! > > > > Lisi > > being lazy nowadays, if possible I avoid any source code compilation ;-) > > libsane-common unavailable in backports, I don't know if this could be > profitable to you to backport it yourself. > > you could test a stable/testing mix in your sources.list with pinning > preferences to follow sane in testing. > or you could stay stable and try a quick and dirty trick in jessie by > jnserting: > > # Canon LiDE 220 > usb 0x04a9 0x190f > > in your /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf: I don't know how is designed the > genesys backend, so maybe it is sufficient to obtain a functionning > scanner, minus the LiDE220 specificities?
Thanks for the suggestions. The last didn't work. :-( I'll try the other two - not simultaneously! Lisi
