I apologize, I forgot to direct this message to the list.
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Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Brother MFC-J485DW "Scanadf -L and Scanadf -V
output":
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:13:50 -0500
From: Paul Graff <[email protected]>
To: Ralph Little <[email protected]>
Excellent. I should have realized that I would be able to disable the
genesys backend initially and given that a try. Obviously I should have
realized that even after reviewing the
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/frontends/-/issues/22 and
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/issues/464.
I commented out the genesys backend.
$ scanadf -L
device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother MFC-J485DW MFC-J485DW
device `airscan:e0:Brother MFC-J485DW' is a eSCL Brother MFC-J485DW
ip=192.168.1.28
$ scanadf -V
scanadf (sane-frontends) 1.0.14
1. Would this issue have caused the adf to completely fail to be
functional through SANE?
I would like to start a new thread concerning the adf on my Brother
MFC-J485DW (Xsane is only displaying a preview for 1 of the 3 pages I am
trying to scan with the adf feature).
Thank you for the excellent help. I would like to let you know for some
time I was using an Outlook email account and I could never receive
messages from the sane-devel list and I did not know why since the
Outlook email client confirmed the emails had been sent.
On 4/8/21 4:12 PM, Ralph Little wrote:
Hi,
What you could do in this case as an alternative, is just edit
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and comment out the genesys backend as that is
where the issue seems to be coming from (if you do not have a genesys
device of course).
In that case, you need not use sane-git at all.
On 2021-04-08 2:00 p.m., Paul Graff wrote:
Thank you for your response. Before I do install the sane-git ppa I
would like to inform you that I do currently have the sane-release
ppa installed. I have enclosed a screenshot of update manager
displaying this information as well as the underlying packages from
sane-release that are currently installed. -> Software Sources ->
sane-project/sane-release -> open ->
libsane1,libsane,libsane-common,sane-utils are all 'ticked'. I have
verified they are installed .........
1. If I enable the sane-git ppa I could possibly have conflicts
between it and sane-release ppa. I have experienced this before
actually and received some great help with the issue.
Yes, definitely don't have both sane-releases and sane-ppa enabled at
the same time.
I would think you could probably enable sane-git and disable
sane-releases, update and upgrade and it should be fine.
If there are issues, then just remove all the SANE packages from
sane-releases and then reinstall them back again.
There is always risk in tracking sane-git as it is not guaranteed to
be stable.
2. Can I ask what the safest way to proceed by doing this would be?
Possibly I can simply untick sane-project/sane-release in software
sources and add the following through the terminal by following the
steps below?:
Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this
untrusted PPA by adding *ppa:sane-project/sane-git* to your system's
Software Sources. (Read about installing
<https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html>)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-git
sudo apt-get update
Yes, I would disable the sane-releases PPA in Software Sources, update
(which I think it will ask you to do anyway), then add the sane-git
PPA, update (again I think you get this for free), then upgrade and
you should get the new sane-git binaries.
But note the previous alternative suggestion if that would work for you.
Cheers,
Ralph
