Hi, On Tuesday 11 January 2005 20:14, Doug Mounce wrote: > Sorry to interject, but I have a Canon LiDE30 USB that doesn't seem to > be supported by sane drivers on the Mac OS X. Can I confirm that idea?
No - the scanner is supported. > > scanimage locks-up the scanner after moving the scan bar about half-way > down the page. What do you mean by "locks-up" - does the scan bar return to the home position or not? If you only call scanimage without any further options, then the scanarea is pretty small. > > scanimage -L returns this message: > > device `plustek:libusb:001:002-04a9-220e-ff-00' is a Canon > N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner Looks good. > I didn't understand how to read the backend's man page, or if adjusting > access permissions was recommended. I don't really know where the > backend files might be. As the scan-head moves, there's no need to tweak anything. > /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ contains these lines: > > #canon.conf > /dev/scanner > #/dev/sg0 This is completely wrong - the LiDE30 is supported by the plustek backend and not by the canon backend - so you need to look at the plustek.conf file - somewhat confusing I know ;) > I am new to device drivers and sane, and I haven't gotten any scanner > to work with SANE. (An HP device advertised as supported by the Mac OS > X backends did seem to go a little further with the scan bar, but never > collected an image file that I could open.) You might laugh (or > cringe) that I started looking at SANE in order to get a Ricoh IS420 > high volume scanner working by converting SCSI-2 signals to firewire. > > Any advice or confirmation would be greatly appreciated, regards, Doug. Please checkout, that you're using the latest stuff for MacOSX @ http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/ Ciao, Gerhard > > > On Jan 11, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 05:41, Alvaro Figueiredo wrote: > > Hi, all. > > > > I recently bought a Canon LIDA 20, a USB scanner. It readly worked > > on my Linux 2.6 box, but its scan quality is really much worse than > > Windows 98 driver's scan output. It is a dual boot box. > >
