Comment 226 for bug 1728012

@luca.mg: have you checked for firmware updates? My Brother DCP-L2550DW can
update from the web interface in the system tools/administration tab and
there have been a few updates in the last year.

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:45 PM luca.mg <email address hidden> wrote:

> @ PeterPall: regarding the Epson scanner, yes it could be the firmware
> upload, the first root scan took time, I thought it was the scanner
> warming up longer than usual and not catching up, but I allowed time and
> it finally went through, so You may very well be right. I did not run
> lsusb -v, just a plain lsub, but before the root scan the scanner was
> detected as an epkowa driven unknown model, after the root scan it is
> detected with the proper model name.
>
> @ Chris Rainey: regarding the Brother MFP, I can confirm that I ran the
> installer script and not the available deb packages.
>
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> Title:
> Many 3rd party scanner drivers are broken by a sane change
>
> Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Many scanners can no more be used since sane has changed something:
> The 3rd-party plug-in the vendor provides as .deb package will still
> install. But the scanner is no more recognized.
>
> Scanners that are affected are(besides others):
> - Epson Perfection V10
> - Epson Perfection V1000
> - Epson WorkForce GT-1500
> - Brother MFC-8510DN
> - Epson Perfection V33
>
> It is to note that the probability that the scanner manufacturers fix
> things others broke is below 100%.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: libsane1 1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2
> Uname: Linux 4.14.0-041400rc5-lowlatency x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Oct 27 12:35:52 2017
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> SourcePackage: sane-backends
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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