Hi, I have a Canoscan Lide 30 which used to work just fine with SANE under Linux. But I had to change my GNU/Linux laptop for a PowerBook and now things are getting more complex... First, the Canon doesn't provide a Twain driver but only some kind of photoshop plug--in. Of course, I don't have photoshop and the application given by Canon to use their plug-in in a "stand alone" way (Canoscan Toolbox) is of very, very poor quality. Anyway, I'd like to use the scanner with all the fine opensource software, in particular the Gimp.
Here is what I get, when I run "sane-find-scanner": found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan], chip=LM983x?) at libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00 Notice the (I think) tell-tale "?" But then, "scanimage -L" doesn't find a thing. The backend for this scanner appears to be the plustek one. I have the plustek.conf file (in /sw/etc/sane.d as SANE was installed with fink). I have tried different things in this file, including putting [usb] 0x04a9 0x220e device auto or device libusb:003:002-04a9-220e-ff-00 or device libusb:003:002 But in no case is the scanner seen by scanimage... Is there a solution other than buy another scanner (or go back to Linux)?? Marc -- | Marc Freitag (freitag[at]ast!cam!ac!uk) | Institute of Astronomy | Madingley Road, CB3 0HA Cambridge, UK | Phone: +44 (0)1223 766 098 Fax: +44 (0)1223 337 523
