The Brother MFC-1910W printer-fax-scanner, brscan4 based, does not work
with the symlink trick, the scanner is detected by sane-find-scanner,
but is not listed by scanimage -l, and will only work after enabling the
root account and issuing the 'su root' and 'xsane' commands in a
terminal; a simple sudo xsane won't work. Although it seems to me a
permission issue, creating appropriate (to the best of my knowledge!)
udev rules files in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory and/or in
/lib/udev/rules.d directory has no positive outcome, nor editing the the
/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules file; my attempts were using the
lines
## Brother MFC-1910W
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="035d", MODE="0666",
GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
with several flavours of the MODE= option (0660 0666 0664 0777 and the like).
Again: if only libsane1 will also look for sane backends in the "legacy"
locations other than the new ones perhaps this insane mess would be sorted out.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728012
Title:
Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change
Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Many scanners can no more be used since sane has changed something:
The 3rd-party plug-in the vendor provides as .deb package will still
install. But the scanner is no more recognized.
Scanners that are affected are(besides others):
- Epson Perfection V10
- Epson Perfection V1000
- Epson WorkForce GT-1500
- Brother MFC-8510DN
- Epson Perfection V33
It is to note that the probability that the scanner manufacturers fix
things others broke is below 100%.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libsane1 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.14.0-041400rc5-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 27 12:35:52 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: sane-backends
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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