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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/701001
Title:
Canon MX340 All-In-One - Scanner requires manual SANE compilation to
work
Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
Binary package hint: libsane
Ubuntu Version: 10.10 (Maverick)
Summary: Canon MX340 scanner component not supported out of the box. Nasty
tricks required to make it work with SANE.
Proposed Fix: Just needs an update of the libsane package (possibly next
release.) Note that SANE must be compiled with libusb 1.0 or strange behaviours
crop up.
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The Canon MX340 is an all-in-one scanner/printer/fax of roughly 2009
vintage. The scanner component is supported by very, very new versions
of the sane-pixma backend (sufficiently new that Ubuntu 10.10's
libsane package doesn't include support yet.) Compilation of sane-
backends from Git is required to make the scanner work without
resorting to Canon's own "scangearmp" interface, which is severely
limited in features.
For the most part Nicolas Paris' instructions [1] about manual
compilation of sane-backends from Git apply, with the added twist that
you must add --enable-libusb_1_0 to the list of ./configure arguments.
To be explicit:
1) Install libusb-dev-1.0-0 from repos.
2) Download sane-backends from git repository [2]. I used the version that
was current at Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:24:18 +0000.
3) ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
--enable-libusb_1_0
4) make clean; make; sudo make install. Wail and gnash teeth while waiting
for compile to finish.
5) Yay! xsane works with the scanner. :)
If you don't force the use of libusb 1.0, then SANE will compile with
libusb 0.1.4; this leads to strange errors where SANE errors out on
*all* operations with "Error during device I/O.", yet the scanner will
still go through the motions of doing whatever SANE asked it to. For
example, if you ask for a scan from the flatbed platen, SANE will
immediately error out, but the scanner head will light up and do a
full pass over the scanning area. (This sounds to me _somewhat_ like
the "USB timeout" error described in [3].)
I only discovered that libusb_1_0 was required after banging my head
on the wall for 6 hours, then observing that SANE on my Archlinux box
(compiled with libusb 1.0.8) actually worked, albeit only with
superuser privileges and only half the time.
- Lewis.
[1] http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html
[2] http://git.debian.org/?p=sane/sane-backends.git
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024228.html
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