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GrouchyGaijin

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-04-03

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Scan with CanoScan LiDE 100 usb scanner - [SOLVED]

Hi Guys,

I'm running #! Statler with Xfce and am trying to get my scanner to work.

I followed the instructions I had used in Ubuntu 10.10

To get this working, here are the steps to take:

1) You need some usb libraries, so, in a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev build-essential libsane-dev

2) To get the sane backends from git you need git-core. If you don't already have it, type this (also in a terminal):

sudo apt-get install git-core

3) Now use the git that was just installed to get the sane backends using the following command:

git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git

That downloads the backends and puts them in a folder called sane-backends in your home folder.

4) Change directory into the new sane-backends folder and compile them:

cd sane-backends

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

make <--- this one takes a while

sudo make install

Now everything is installed, but you still won't be able to scan (except as root) until you set up some permissions.

5) You need to edit a file, but you need to be root to edit it, so:

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

and add the following 2 lines:

# Canon CanoScan Lide 100
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1904", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

save the file, exit gedit, exit terminal, reboot, and...

SCAN AWAY!
Instructions modified version of Shutter4U's post.

Everything seemed to go well until

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

and add the following 2 lines:

# Canon CanoScan Lide 100
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1904", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

When I opened the file to add those two lines I noticed that the file was completly blank.  In Ubuntu when I opened that file there were already a lot of entries.

Should I add my scanner information to a different file in #!?

When I do lsusb the scanner is seen :

john@grouchygaijin:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04e8:3292 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
[b]Bus 003 Device 006: ID 04a9:1904 Canon, Inc.[/b] 
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1058:1003 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

The only thing simple scan picks up is the builtin webcam and that fails if I try to "scan" a picture from it.  Although the cam activates when I launch simple scan.

If I run:

 lsusb; sane-find-scanner; scanimage -L

I get this

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1904 [CanoScan], chip=GL847) at libusb:003:006
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

I installed the sane package from  the repository after I'd already followed the instructions above.  Was that a mistake?  I thought perhaps another program would work better.  If I launch xscanimage, it too only picks up the webcam.  It will save an image from the webcam, and then lock up.

I don't care about capturing images from my webcam.  I would just like to use my scanner without booting into ubuntu.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Last edited by GrouchyGaijin (2011-05-19 12:02:01)

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Thank you,

GG
Dell Inspiron 1520 - EeePC 1000H both single boot 100% Linux

vredfreak

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 32

Re: Scan with CanoScan LiDE 100 usb scanner - [SOLVED]

Everything seemed to go well until

sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

and add the following 2 lines:

# Canon CanoScan Lide 100
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1904", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

When I opened the file to add those two lines I noticed that the file was completly blank.  In Ubuntu when I opened that file there were already a lot of entries.

Should I add my scanner information to a different file in #!?

Try /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules

I installed the sane package from  the repository after I'd already followed the instructions above.  Was that a mistake?

Possibly, because sane pulls in libsane as a dependency, which may have overwritten your git version.  May need to uninstall libsane, and reinstall the git version.

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GrouchyGaijin

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2011-04-03

Posts: 67

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Re: Scan with CanoScan LiDE 100 usb scanner - [SOLVED]

Try /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules

Possibly, because sane pulls in libsane as a dependency, which may have overwritten your git version.  May need to uninstall libsane, and reinstall the git version.

Thanks man!

The 60-libsane.rules was the correct file.

You were right that I needed to uninstall the stuff from the repository and reinstall the git stuff.

Now my scanner works - but I have to disconnect it from the computer and then reconnect it for it to work after I boot the machine.  I can live with that.  I'm marking this thread as solved.

Thanks again.

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Thank you,

GG
Dell Inspiron 1520 - EeePC 1000H both single boot 100% Linux