Canon MP540 and libusb

[exsencon]

Hmm,I decided to give it a try,so I reinstalled Suse 11.1 and did the install of scangearmp with nodeps. restarted udev and installed GTK but I get this when I run scangearmp from the console:

zeger@linux-lxao:~> sudo scangearmp

(scangearmp:6792): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

On the other hand,when I run it in Gimp it's there and I can scan with my MP520. So it is there,I just can't get it run outside Gimp. Probably need something more but don't know what.
Any suggestions? Anyway,very good idea because it's starting to work at least!

[exsencon]

Never mind,I just put it in the main menu under graphics as scannerMP520 with scangearmp as command and up it went!Put a nice scan GUI from pixmaps on it and done. Great idea. Thanks.
Just have the feeling canon MP owners are let down by the Suse/Novell folks but never mind,we're still there!

[WilliamSimonLewis]

I have installed the "scangearmp-common" rpm using the "--nodeps" argument.

The "scangearmp-mp520" was installed as normal.

Starting scangearmp from the terminal gives the following error message:

simon@linux:~> scangearmp
scangearmp: error while loading shared libraries: libgimp-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
simon@linux:~>

I guess because libgimp (x86_64) is under /usr/lib64/ and not /usr/lib/

Does anyone know a workaround?

[lwfinger]

WilliamSimonLewis wrote:
> I have installed the "scangearmp-common" rpm using the "--nodeps"
> argument.
>
> The "scangearmp-mp520" was installed as normal.
>
> Starting scangearmp from the terminal gives the following error
> message:
>
> simon@linux:~> scangearmp
> scangearmp: error while loading shared libraries: libgimp-2.0.so.0:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> simon@linux:~>
>
> I guess because libgimp (x86_64) is under /usr/lib64/ and not /usr/lib/
>
>
> Does anyone know a workaround?

You could try a link

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libgimp-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libgimp-2.0.so.0

[WilliamSimonLewis]

Hallo Wise Pinguin

I tried the symbolic link as suggested, but there seems to be an incompatibility between the 32 bit canon drivers and the 64 bit libraries...

simon@linux:~> scangearmp
scangearmp: error while loading shared libraries: libgimp-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
simon@linux:~>

Does anyone know a contact person at CANON for linux drives. After many attempts over CANON's homepages in USA, Europe and Asia I have not been able to send just one request for native 64 bit LINUX drivers for the PIXMA range of products.

Simon

[exsencon]

That's strange.No problems at all during install?I installed scangear on my DEll amd64x2Turion (with the nodeps method)and didn't have any lib problems at all. It installed straightaway without any questions about libs 64.
So I have it now on my 32-bit desktop and on my 64-bit laptop. I even installed gscan2pdf and it works in there too.

On the other hand wireless(with ndiswrapper)is a big problem in Suse11.1.I finally got it but that's another story!

[matstardust]

Thanks for your suggestion, now my pixma mp210 works also as scanner!!!

[ajheinhuis]

After working years with SuSE 8.1, 9.0 and 10.2 I found that even 11.1 is not sufficient enough to supply scanners and printer of HP and Canon. Normal well known scanners/printers.

It really lasted three long years before my HP deskjet printer/scanner worked. Now I bought myself a Canon MP 540 printer/scanner and OpenSuSE 11.1 and again there are problems with my printer/scanner. My HP works fine now, but, its an golden oldie. My new Canon doesn't work at all.

Even a normal downloading of an pdf file with Firefox gives problems.

Because of my problems with OpenSuSE 11.1 I have to buy myself Vista, for at least that worked fine. Farewell oh OpenSuSE.

A.J. Heinhuis

[aidamos]

Originally Posted by mookwi

Hello,

i bought a Canon MP540 USB Printer/Scanner. I download the driver from the canon homepage. The printer driver runs fine and there are no problems , but there are 2 scanner driver (common and mp540). When i start to install the common driver there comes the failure: ...the common driver needs libusb ...) I installed all libusb...driver (all of them) , but there ist still the failure. Where can i find the missing libusb or what can i do?

Install package "libusb-0_1-4-0.1.12-143.12.un.i586.rpm" from:
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg...standard/i586/
and then you can install scanner drivers from Canon.

[endimion67]

just to say I had the exact same problem with an MP160 I used the libusb rpm given by aidamos and it does work for me