Re: Help getting Canon LiDE 30 USB scanner to work

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Stemen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:49:57AM -0700, walt wrote:
> > I finally got my canoscan 670 working, but on -current not -release.
> > The kernel uscanner support is compiled in so the scanner appears as
> > /dev/uscanner0.
> >
> > If you have the chance to try -current it might give a clue where your
> > problem lies.  IIRC there have been some changes to usb support lately.
>
> Hi Walt.
>
> I see that our scanners vender and product ID is hard coded in the
> uscanner.c in the 1.12 release.
>
>      {{ USB_DEVICE(0x04a9, 0x220e) }, 0 }, /* CanoScan N1240U */
>
> I will compile a new kernel and try it.  The 1.10 release shows a small
> set of supported scanners.  Did you compile sane-backends *without libusb*
> in order for yours to work?

I didn't change or configure anything when building sane-backends or libusb,
so the defaults worked okay for me, and sane-find-scanner is linked against
libusb.

> Because the sane-usb manual says to remove any kernel usb scanner driver
> in order to use it.

I had to do that in NetBSD but not DragonFly.