$ sudo sane-find-scanner [sudo] password for scohen: # 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=0x138a, product=0x0017) at libusb:003:006 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x190f [CanoScan], chip=GL848+) at libusb:003:036 OK, this is a little interesting. I only have one scanner. What is this first one at libusb:003:006 and why does the libusb:003:xxx for the real scanner keep incrementing by 1 every time I run an app? On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 7:44 PM Kelly Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay try this: > > sudo sane-find-scanner > > And lets see if it finds it w/o error. > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 7:58 PM Steve Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks. I tried this but it doesn't seem to have helped. Output from > xsane -v is the same, but then, that's xsane, not the backend, right? How > can I check the backend version now installed, and what results should I > expect? > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 6:29 PM Kelly Price <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Are you using Ubuntu's version of SANE or the latest from the > SANE-Releases PPA? > >> > >> If it's the former, switch to the latter: > >> https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release > >> > >> In short: > >> > >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release > >> sudo apt-get update > >> > >> Then run package updates (sudo apt-get upgrade, or use aptitude) > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 6:48 PM Steve Cohen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > >> > I have a Canon LIDE 220 scanner. I am running > >> > Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, 64-bit > >> > > >> > xsane -v > >> > Gtk-Message: 14:37:04.462: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" > >> > xsane-0.999 (c) 1998-2013 Oliver Rauch > >> > E-mail: [email protected] > >> > package xsane-0.999 > >> > compiled with GTK-2.24.32 > >> > with color management function > >> > with GIMP support, compiled with GIMP-2.10.18 > >> > XSane output formats: jpeg, pdf(compr.), png, pnm, ps(compr.), > tiff, txt > >> > > >> > This setup used to work well. I don't use it often but it no longer > >> > does. On "scanning for devices" I get "Failed to open device > >> > genesys:libusb:003:029 - Invalid Argument. > >> > > >> > $ scanimage --test > >> > Output format is not set, using pnm as a default. > >> > scanimage: open of device genesys:libusb:003:031 failed: Invalid > argument > >> > > >> > Can someone point me to a solution for this? > >> > > >> > Thanks. > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price > >> http://redwolf.ws > > > > -- > Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price > http://redwolf.ws >
