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RE: XSANE DOESN'T CAUSE SCANNER TO SCAN

Asked by thgang

Hi there,

I have xsane on by Xubuntu 7.04. I have a Canon CanoScan N124OU, and xsane recognises this device but when I press scan, it doesn't cause the scanner to respond or scan image, instead it just shows a progressive black screen. I have read documentation on this, but my problem doesn't seem to be covered.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,
Tadeh

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said : 		#1

Can you paste for us the results of this command in a terminal:

sane-find-scanner

If this utility is not installed you can install it with:

sudo apt-get install sane-utils

If the answer from sane-find-scanner is positive in principle you can use sane.
Test it with this command and tell us the results:

scanimage -L

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#2

Unfortunatly, there's a bug in Ubuntu Feisty, which stops quite a lot of scanners (especially Canoscan compatible scanners) from running. See Bug #85488 for details.

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HES (hes-embarqmail) said : 		#3

hes@hes-desktop:~$ 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.
February 2, 2008 Using Ubuntu 7.10 I can't get XSane to use my USB Microteck Scan Maker 5800.
As you can see below it sees the scanner, but scans the video board is what it looks like to me.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x05da, product=0x30d8 [USB2.0 SCANNER]) at libusb:001:004
  # 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.
hes@hes-desktop:~$ scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (ATI TV-Wonder) virtual device

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