quit testing with sane an kooka. until you get it to show up in sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L, there is no point.
allan On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, John Bird wrote: > Hi > first let me apologise for posting here but I have searched on the net and > posted in two Linux user groups all to no avail. I'm running Kubutu 6.06 64 > bit using Kernel 26.15.26 and so installed Deb packets from this > distribution. > I'm trying (very trying at times) to get GIMP to Scan using a Canon 2700F film > scanner but neither Gimp nor Kooka see it, They both see the USB flat bed, > From the Sane document I know that this scanner is supported by sane canon > backend.This scanner shows in KinfoCenter as Below > > Attached devices > Host scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 > Vendor: CANON Model IX-27015C Rev: 1.15 > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > And my SCSI shows up correctly. > From the documentation in the sane-backends-1.0.16 I found the following which > seems to applie. > > Add the "canon" scanner to the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf file: > -------- cut here ------------ > # enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network: > #net > pnm > #mustek > #hp > #qcam > #umax > canon > -------- cut here ------------ > > Add a "canon.conf" file to the /usr/local/etc/sane.d directory: > -------- cut here ------------ > scsi CANON > -------- cut here ------------ > > In the Kubutu distro I use there is no /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll, but there is > a /etc/sane.d/dll which I assume is the equivalent in this distro. In this > directory I have made a file .conf file, cutting and pasting as instructed. > There was already a canon conf file in the /etc/sane.d consisting of, > > #canon conf > /dev/scanner > #/dev/sg0 > > and so to this I cut and pasted scsi CANON and have tried it in all possible > combinations commenting out lines and removing comments, but cannot get Gimp > or Koola to see it even as root. The scanner goes through its calibrate cycle > on boot up. The only components of SANE I have installed are the following > > gimp2.0-quiteinsane > libsane > python-imaging-sane > python2.4-imaging-sane > > Any help with this would be most wellcome at this point(please save me from > the evil empire of windoz) > John. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
