Canon LIDE 120 scanner - should I expect this never to work?
Fred Smith
fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Sat Dec 13 01:19:30 UTC 2014
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 05:21:18PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:15:05PM +0100, Marco Guazzone wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've experienced similar issues with an old CanonScan.
> > It worked until Fedora 19, but not in Fedora 20.
> > I've tried with:
> > simple-scan
> > xsane
> > gimp + sane plugin
> > command line: scanimage -d plustek ...
> > The last one returned an I/O error. Just to make sure it's not a
> > scanner problem, I've asked a collegue of mine (which runs a fedora
> > 19) to test it and it worked.
> >
> > I hope that Fedora 21 (that I'm going to install in the next few days)
> > can bring it back to life.
>
> sounds like a regression to me!
>
Just booted up a F20 live CD (usb stick) on my netbook, installed
the sane bits and played around a bit. with no picture in the scanner
I got a page that was black with a lot of noise in it. I figured it wasn't
good, because on Centos 7 on that same computerr I got a white page doing
that, as I should.
but I said what the heck and put in a piece of paper with a Dilbert
cartoon on it, and voila, it scanned!
So, as to why you can't scan with your Canoon Lide, I can't say. as
someone else suggested, check that config file (/etc/sane.d/genesys.conf)
to make sure it has a valid entry. On my Centos-6 box, it contains:
# Canon LiDE 110
usb 0x04a9 0x1909
Oh, wait. you said you've got a LiDE 120? I see that's not listed.
you could try adding its USB identifiers and see if that helps any.
also, as I recall form some time back it wasn't hard to hack the
sane source code to add a new identifier (as long as the support for
it was otherwise in the program already).
Good luck!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -- Marco
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/12/2014 12:45 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 07:56:05PM +0000, Joe Feely wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Just got a Canon LIDE 120 scanner. Neither Simple scan nor xsane
> > >>> detect
> > >>> it, though lsusb sees that it's connected.
> > >>> I bit of Googling makes me wonder if I need to exchange it.
> > >>> Is there a way to get it to work?
> > >>> I'm using fc20 + MATE.
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Joe
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Joe:
> > >>
> > >> I'm using a Canon Lide 210 here. I found it worked without hassle,
> > >> "out of the box," with Fedora 19 (on my netbook). That's using SANE
> > >> OR Simplescan. They both work.
> > >>
> > >> I had the thought in my head that both the LIDE 1xx series and the
> > >> Lide 2xx series were all software compatible, but I could be wrong.
> > >>
> > >> Oh, also, one thing I discovered the hard way is that cable length
> > >> on this scanner MATTERS. I wanted to put it on a bookshelf near my
> > >> computer, but to do that I need a (much) longer USB cable. To my
> > >> surprise it doesn't work AT ALL with 15-20 feet of cable. not merely
> > >> wrong, but just plain busted. so, when I want to use it, I open my
> > >> desk drawer, perch the scanner on the open drawer, and connect it
> > >> with a combination of the provided cable and an extension of 4-5
> > >> feet, with which it does work. The moral of the story being: if you've
> > >> tried it only on a long cable, try a short one and see if it works
> > >> any better.
> > >>
> > >> You may also want to ensure that F20 hasn't suffered a regression in
> > >> their scanner support: on F20 I've got the following SANE packages
> > >> installed:
> > >> sane-frontends-1.0.14-16.fc19.i686
> > >> sane-backends-libs-1.0.24-7.fc19.i686
> > >> xsane-common-0.999-12.fc19.i686
> > >> xsane-gimp-0.999-12.fc19.i686
> > >> libsane-hpaio-3.13.11-4.fc19.i686
> > >> sane-backends-1.0.24-7.fc19.i686
> > >> sane-backends-drivers-scanners-1.0.24-7.fc19.i686
> > >>
> > >> My (admittedly flaky) memory tells me that you need at least backends
> > >> version 1.0.22 to get the lide drivers.
> > >>
> > >> Simple-scan is:
> > >>
> > >> simple-scan-3.8.0-1.fc19.i686
> > >
> > >
> > > My guess is that genesys driver would work since it's used for most of
> > > the LIDE scanners. It may just not recognize the USB ID of your
> > > scanner.
> > >
> > > You could try including the USB ID of your scanner (from "lsusb") in
> > > the /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf file and trying to search for the scanner
> > > again. If it finds it, you could try a scan. Be careful, though. The
> > > developer warns:
> > >
> > > "This is stable software for supported models. But if you test new or
> > > untested scanners, keep your hand at the scanner's plug and unplug it,
> > > if the head bumps at the end of the scan area."
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