Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Roger
> On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 11:58:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >That wasn't any help, but since the vendor/product was found when I >plugged in a USB cable, running xsane then found it at the usb bus and >address, and I ran a few scans. Seems to work about as expected and I >believe at a bette

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 20:52:35 m. allan noah wrote: > Well, that implies that we are handing control to the brother4 > backend, but it is not finding any scanners. Perhaps try the same as > root? > > allan That wasn't any help, but since the vendor/product was found when I plugged in a USB cabl

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Roger
> On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 05:18:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >This system has only USB2.0, so a 100mbit ethernet is still faster. If I'm not mistaken; USB 1 has a 1.4 megabit transfer rate, USB 2 has a 480 megabit transfer rate, and USB 3 has a 5 gigabit transfer rate. (Try not to confuse meg

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread m. allan noah
Well, that implies that we are handing control to the brother4 backend, but it is not finding any scanners. Perhaps try the same as root? allan On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2016 17:54:54 m. allan noah wrote: > >> SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L > > And

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 17:54:54 m. allan noah wrote: > SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 scanimage -L And that query returns this enlightening report: [dll] load: searching backend `brother4' in `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane:/usr/lib/sane' [dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-brot

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread m. allan noah
We cannot really help you on the brother stuff, since it is closed source, and not produced by us. But, we can suggest that you try the following: comment out every line of dll.conf except for the the brother lines you need, and one other random backend (maybe, fujitsu). Then run: SANE_DEBUG_DLL=

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 16:45:58 Roger wrote: > ON-TOPIC REPLY: You may require two separate drivers, one for the USB > connection and another driver for the network connected device. And > separate drivers for the printer & scanner functions. Albeit, they > are sometimes bundled together by manu

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Roger
ON-TOPIC REPLY: You may require two separate drivers, one for the USB connection and another driver for the network connected device. And separate drivers for the printer & scanner functions. Albeit, they are sometimes bundled together by manufacturer. (ie. HP's HPLIP package) OFF-TOPIC REP

Re: [sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 10:07:49 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just bought a Brother MFC-J6920DW, and installed the brother linux > .deb drivers that are "supposed" to let xsane run the scanner. But > xsane makes no attempt to access it even if I plug in a USB cable. It > did install

[sane-devel] no (Samsung) scanner found

2016-05-03 Thread Milan Hronský
Dear Sirs, I am a linux beginner. In my part time I develop some DB applications on Postres database, so I took chance and learn a bit of linux my little home comp. Odroid XU3, running Ubuntu 14.04. Recently I bought a network printer/scanner Samsung M2070WF for my family. Unfortunately, Samsun

[sane-devel] Need sane docs

2016-05-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I just bought a Brother MFC-J6920DW, and installed the brother linux .deb drivers that are "supposed" to let xsane run the scanner. But xsane makes no attempt to access it even if I plug in a USB cable. It did install the name "brother4" in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, but I can't fin

[sane-devel] SANE with Canon Canoscan N670U on Mac OS X El Capitan

2016-05-03 Thread Vincent Villard
Hello there !I've just moved to El Capitan and wanted to use my N670U scanner.This scanner is a USB powered scanner (no power supply)It works well with the app "View Scan"It is on your "supported list", it has the status "COMPLETE" using Backend "plustek"I've installed the following (in order), fro