FC5 Canon LiDE 30 and libusbscanner

[Richard England]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:07, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 23 April 2006 16:53, Richard England wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I've recently updated from FC4 to FC5 and attached my Canon LiDE 30
>>>> scanner. This scanner works under FC3. I never tried it on FC4
>>>> before updating the machine. I can't seem to get it to be
>>>> recognized except as root.  Even then, when I attempt to scan
>>>> something, I get a "Failed to start scanner: Device busy" error.
>>>>
>>>> #scanimage -L
>>>> device 'plustek:libusb:001:004' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB
>>>> flatbed scanner
>>>>
>>>> My research, to date, shows that part of the problem might be that
>>>> /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner might be missing.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some step I've missed here?  Has anyone else been
>>>> successful in getting a USB scanner to function and can they shed
>>>> any light on this situation?  As far as I can tell sane-backend is
>>>> as update to date as the repositories allow.
>>>>         
>>> Sane itself should have no trouble at all recognizing it.  My sane
>>> is a wee bit ancient here, but I've got a lappy with FC5 on it and
>>> the cable is portable so lets see if I have a problem.  The scanner
>>> is an epson 1250u, uses the same plustek library AFAIK..  And I'm
>>> running as root ATM on the FC5 lappy.
>>>
>>> Plugged the usb cable into the lappy, ran xsane, clicked thru the
>>> license, it found it as an Epson Prefection 1250/Photo:002, so I
>>> stuck a piece of paper on the bed & told it to get a preview.  It
>>> waited for over a minute before starting the scan, presumably to let
>>> the lamp warm up, and the preview looks plumb normal to me.  Rather
>>> looks like another piece of gear I take along to the job.  That and
>>> my trusty old Epson C82, or get a newer lookalike, its truely been a
>>> hockey puck for about 4-5 years now.  Both it and the scanner have
>>> been used fairly hard.
>>>
>>> The only things I have in /etc/hotplug/usb are kino related.
>>> And there is no libusbscanner on the system according to locate.
>>>
>>> So I'm afraid its not going to be a lot of help to you, other than
>>> to suggest you may be barking up the wrong tree.  Sorry.
>>>       
>> Thank you, Gene.
>>
>> At least I know what direction NOT to go in.
>>
>> Back to the Sane site and Google....but I'm running out of key
>> words.... :-}
>>     
>
> Thanks for the flowers although I didn't earn them by solving the 
> problem.
>
> One of the things to do is to run xsane from a shell, so you get the 
> error output in that shell, which can be enlightening from time to 
> time.  If you've done that, then you can safely ignore my prattling.
>
>   
That's how I've been testing but there are no error messages in the 
transcript at the level.

It appears that the documentation has not kept pace with the tools. UDEV 
is in use and all the /etc/sane.d files look okay, I think.

I got it to scan as root once but can't seem to reproduce what I did.  
So much for keeping track of my steps as I went.  



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