Am So, 03 Jul 2011 09:54:31 CEST schrieb Stefan Polakowski: > Al, > > no success here under Ubuntu 10.10, also after waiting almost one > day... I compiled Gernot's sane backend and added the udev rule as > well. sane-find-scanner does find the scanner, but scanimage -L does > not find it.
I tried it with Natty (11.04). First I thought it is necessary to reboot, but with another machine, I had to wait only a few hours and the scanner was recognized then, without doing anything. I was shopping in the meantime. > I tried as root, Did you install the driver as root or with sudo? Try as root. I mean sudo passwd root ... su - > and also changed the access rights to the USB > device /dev/bus/usb/002/00x (I know it's not the right way, just > experimental). > sane-find-scanner is checking various device files > like /dev/usb/scanner0..15 and /dev/usbscanner0..15 (as shown when > using the -v option), but all without success. Finally it prints: > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1908 [CanoScan]) > at libusb:002:006 > This makes me think: Should there be a special device file for the > scanner, like sane-find-scanner is looking for? Maybe you contact Gernot privately. Gernot helped me a lot, but he is very busy. Al
