I had the same problem. It's definitely a permissions issue. If I remember right you have to chown a few things to get it to work without root privileges.
It works great for me now though. gscan2pdf is excellent. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:46 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > Can you try running as root? It could just be a permissions issue. Also, if > you built sane-backends to overwrite the system provided version, it likely > did not overwrite the config files in /etc/sane.d In particular, the > fujitsu.conf file would not contain the iX500. You can get that file from > the sane-backends/backend dir where you compiled the source. > > allan > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Evan Carroll <me at evancarroll.com> wrote: >> >> I just built from the git repos sane-frontend and sane-backend, >> however scanimage -L is reporting, >> >> 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). >> >> And, sane-find-scanner is reporting, >> >> > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04c5, product=0x132b) at libusb:001:006 >> >> On another note, I just purchased this scanner on Amazon, and I'm not >> sure if I should send it back. Is it worth keeping if you intend on >> using it on a Linux Desktop? >> >> -- >> Evan Carroll - me at evancarroll.com >> System Lord of the Internets >> web: http://www.evancarroll.com >> ph: 281.901.0011 >> >> -- >> 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" > > -- > 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
