Try as root, it might be a permissions issue. allan
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Matt Fields <fields.emmett at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, thanks, I believe I have (finally) successfully built and installed > sane-backends. > However, I'm still unable to get xsane / scanimage to identify my scanner. > > It is a Canon PIXMA 3100 series. It is available by wireless or by USB. > > sane-find-scanners detects the PIXMA by USB, but not by wifi: scanimage -L > does not detect the scanner at all. > > Where to proceed from here? > > *Output from both commands:* > $ 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=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1752 [MG3100 series]) > at libusb:002:005 > # 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. > > # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you > # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as > # necessary. > > [09:35:40AM 04-09-2013] ~ > $ scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Rolf Bensch <rolf at bensch-online.de> wrote: > >> Hi Matt, >> >> Am 08.04.2013 18:10, schrieb Matt Fields: >> > Hi guys. >> > >> > I'm trying to build sane-backends to get my Canon PIXMA 3100 series >> > working. I am able to use Canon's included scanner program, but it's >> > not the greatest. Would like to get xsane / gscan working. >> > >> > I am unable to build sane-backends successfully. >> > >> > Here's the log from the configure step / make-file: >> > >> > I'm new to building/compiling. Any help? Thanks. >> > >> > >> > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr BACKENDS=PIXMA --sysconfdir=/etc >> > --localstatedir=/var >> >> PIXMA must be lower-case. >> >> I usually use this command: >> >> $ BACKENDS="pixma" ./configure >> >> and do a parallel installation to the system's sane-backend as described >> in README.linux. >> >> Cheers, >> Rolf >> > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at 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-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130408/c49f8f4a/attachment.html>
