On Thursday 22 June 2006 22:49, Marc Freitag wrote: > 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 >
Everytime, I see this output of sane-find-scanner chip=LM983x? on my Linux box, I know that there are permission problems... I don't have any experience with MacOSX, but this exactly the case on Linux. Ciao Gerhard
