Hi, On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:04:51PM +0200, Risanecek wrote: > I would like to contribute feedback for this device, but can't get it to > run.
The scanner search engine knows the following about this scanner: http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=brother&model=9880&bus=any So the status of this scanner is untested, which means that it may or may not work. The backend is "brother" which is not part of the sane-backends distribution. > > scanimage -L > device `brother:bus2;dev1' is a Brother MFC-9880 MFC Scanner > > (works for both user and root) Have you also tried scanning with scanimage (just to be sure)? > => Failed to open device 'brother:bus2;dev1': Error during device I/O I haven't checked if that works with the brother backend, but do the debug messages show anything helpful? Usually you turn them on like this: SANE_DEBUG_BACKENDNAME=255 scanimage >/dev/null where BACKENDNAME could be e.g. BROTHER. If there is a manpage for this backend, it may be mentioned how to enable debugging. > tried also to compile the brscan sources myself. > > Unfortunately no luck :-( > > make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/brother-1.0.0/sanei' > rm -f .libs/sanei_scsi.lo > gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE > -DPATH_SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/usr/etc/sane.d -DPATH_SANE_DATA_DIR=/usr/share > -DV_MAJOR=1 -DV_MINOR=0 -g -O2 -W -Wall sanei_scsi.c -fPIC -DPIC -o > .libs/sanei_scsi.lo > sanei_scsi.c: In function 'sanei_scsi_req_enter2': > sanei_scsi.c:1919: error: invalid lvalue in assignment > sanei_scsi.c:1933: error: invalid lvalue in assignment Looks like Brother uses quite old code. In both lines, remove "(const void*)" and compile again. After this change, the code compiles for me. > Resumee: "Scanner Access Now Easy" I must confess my interpretation > of "easy" differs somewhat. Blame Brother. It's their backend and SANE developers can only give limited help because that backend contains non-free binary-only code. So their support is the right address for problems with the backend. Please tell us if after the change that scanner works so I can update the status for it. Bye, Henning
