Hi Chris, Chris Widdows writes:
> Made the changes, but it is not recognised. XSane seems to only pickup > on my webcam. I ran sane-find-scanner as root and this is what I got: > >> sane-find-scanner > > # 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=0x0011) at libusb:003:005 > found USB scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x050c, chip=GL128) at > libusb:001:003 > # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be > supported by > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > # Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports > # can't be detected by this program. >> scanimage -L > device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated Camera virtual device Was that run as root as well? What does $ sudo SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128 scanimage -L say? Does the output look like it loaded that third-party backend correctly? It could be that the backend was installed someplace where the dll backend does not look. Not all third-party backends have been fixed up to play nice with multiarch. Before multiarch, backends were installed in /usr/lib/sane (or /usr/lib64/sane) After multiarch, they usually live in a place that looks like /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane > And this is LMDE2 distro, 64bits, kernel 4.9 (from the jessie > backports). Essentially LMDE2 is a pimped Debian Jessie, which is > oldstable. 16GB Ram, core i7, Disk is a 64GB ssd + 1TB HDD and the HDD > is configured as a bcache-backend, because there's 192GB left on the > ssd, which I use as the bcache cache device. > > Rgds Chris > > > On 15/02/18 13:56, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> Chris writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> My first post here, and whilst I think I've covered the obvious things, >>> I could have easily missed something. But I can read, so in case I >>> missed what to read, kindly tell me.... >>> >>> Having said that, I have got a Mustek A3F1200N scanner. It's an usb >>> scanner and Mustek offers a xsane backend deb file for this scanner at >>> ftp://ftp2.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/A3F1200N/Linux/ . I run 64 bit >>> LMDE2, so I downloaded and installed the .deb file. This added a lot of >>> files to /etc/sane.d, but xsane does not detect the scanner. So I did an >>> lsusb and found this: Bus 001 Device 010: ID 055f:050c Mustek Systems, Inc. >> Third party backend binary packages often don't bother with getting the >> device access permissions right on *your* particular system. Taking a >> quick look at Mustek's binaries, it doesn't seem to even do so much as >> try. >> >> # Apart from that, it seems to warp you back in time to sane-backends >> # 1.0.23 for all other backends and clobber whatever changes you made >> # to /etc/sane.d. At least for the i386 deb. >> >> You didn't mention the distribution you use but something like the below >> ought to work for most. >> >> sudo cp /lib/udev/rules.d/*-libsane.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ >> >> and replace the whole of the gargatuan list of entries that look like >> >> ATTRS{idVendor}=="055f", ATTRS{idProduct}=="050c", >> ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" >> >> with that single line. Replace the line that starts with >> >> ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes" >> >> with >> >> ENV{libsane_matched}=="yes", RUN+="chmod 0666 $env{DEVNAME}" >> >> Replug your device and things should work, if my recollection of the way >> udev works still up to snuff. It's not the most granular and security >> conscious way of going about this but is good enough for single user >> machines and most SOHO use. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
