Re: SANE scanner error on Debian Jessie

[David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com>]

I have a similar problem, but with a SCSI scanner.

If I type in a terminal window lsscsi it shows the scanner is there, but
without a location eg /dev/

Sometimes if I type sane-find-scanner it does.

This morning I had to use modprobe sg1 then it worked OK.

David.

On Tue, 2016-03-08 at 16:06 -0800, New Linux wrote:
> Thanks Lisi, but still having the same trouble...
>  
> I did this:
>  
> 1) To /etc/apt/sources.list I added the line:
> deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie-backports main
>  
> 2) Then did:  apt-get update
>  
> 3) Then did:
> apt-get -t jessie-backports install sane libsane libsane-common
> sane-utils
>  
> But when I try to scan, I get the same errors as described previously.
> Am I doing something wrong there?
>  
>  
>  
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: SANE scanner error on Debian Jessie
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 23:01:42 +0000
>   
>  
> > Some new information about SANE scanner problem:
> >
> > Debian (scanner not working): libsane 1.0.24 libsane-common 1.0.24
> >
> > Ubuntu (scanner working): libsane 1.0.23 libsane-common 1.0.23
> >
> > To experiment, I used synaptic to remove everything related to SANE
> on
> > Debian Jessie, and then compiled SANE 1.0.23 from source on it. And
> then
> > command line SCANNING WORKED - Great!
> >
> > Unfortunately, as soon as I reinstalled either XSane or SimpleScan,
> > synaptic reinstalled SANE 1.0.24 and then nothing worked again.
> >
> > If these questions sound like I don't know what I'm doing, it's
> because
> > I don't know what I'm doing (amateur Debian user):
> >
> > 1) Is there some way I can install the older SANE 1.0.23 via
> Synaptic?
> > 2) Alternatively, since SANE 1.0.22 was part of Wheezy - can that be
> > installed via Synaptic on Jessie?
>  
> I wrote half an email before doing the correct Google search. :-(
>  
> I see that the Jessie libsane problem has already been solved:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libsane&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
>  
> So follow these directions for using Backports, and you will be home
> and dry:
> http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
>  
> I don't know how you use backports in Synaptic. In Aptitude it is the
> same as
> in apt-get, mutatis mutandis. You could always use apt-get just this
> once!
>  
> Lisi
> >
> > Original post:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/03/msg00241.html
>  
>