openSUSE 11.2: (supported) Scanner not found, SANE update did not helped

sabo007 · November 28, 2011, 3:47pm

Hi,
iam trying to use a Canon LIDE 210 Scanner on a openSUSE 11.2 system (update is not possible).
The scanner is supported by the genesis backend of SANE: SANE Supported Scanners - Search Engine

opensuse 11.2 normaly has SANE-backend 1.0.20 installed, so at first i tried to plug in the scanner and see what YAST is saying. I clicked on scanner and after some checks there was no scanner found. I noticed that there is a conf file with all the backends and that i have to remove the ‘#’ before the genesys backend to use it.
I did but the scanner was not found again (but the genesys backend was used).

So i decided to update my SANE backend manualy, which i did and now i have 1.0.22 and again i tried to install the scanner but again it was not found.
I did a restart which did not helped.

I tried to add the scanner with yast butthe list the Canon LIDE 210 is not in the list.

What can i do?

sabo007 · November 28, 2011, 4:27pm

UPDATE: the reason the scanner was not found (sane-find-scanner) was because i did not had the dev_libusb package installed and so compiling the SANE code results in no usb support.

After chaining that, i can find the scanner when using: sane-find-scanner (as ROOT only)
but YAST/Hardware/Scanner is not finding the scanner.

hcvv · November 28, 2011, 4:51pm

I hope you are aware of the fact that not many people here have the (unsupported) 11.2 openSUSE running anymore. And thus people may have problems to use their own systems in trying to recreate what you do.

sabo007 · November 28, 2011, 5:44pm

I know but this i mostly SANE related i think.

stakanov · December 25, 2011, 1:37pm

@Sabo007 i hope you are still around.
Thank you for the update. i will have to some extend the same problem as I will have to recompile sane for 11.1 evergreen these days. Which install did you follow for SANE? Source compile with ./configure?
And did you use --prefix to specify the directory?
And yes, you where right to post in my view. You indicated well which version you did use and posted valuable information. No matter how many users are supposedly here in the forum. I do not think that posting about evergreen is a nuisance to a forum run by volunteers, provided one mentions clearly what version is concerned (as you did).