Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 15 August 2016 13:23:36 didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 15/08/2016 à 12:42, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > Thanks, didier.  That is nice to know.
> >
> > So it should be in the up-to-date tar ball, if I were to succeed in
> > sorting that out.  But are you suggesting that I would do better to
> > backport from Stretch?  I had decided that the tar ball would be simpler
> > and more sure. But perhaps now is the time to learn to backport!!
> >
> > Lisi
>
> being lazy nowadays, if possible I avoid any source code compilation ;-)
>
> libsane-common unavailable in backports, I don't know if this could be
> profitable to you to backport it yourself.
>
> you could test a stable/testing mix in your sources.list with pinning
> preferences to follow sane in testing.
> or you could stay stable and try a quick and dirty trick in jessie by
> jnserting:
>
> # Canon LiDE 220
> usb 0x04a9 0x190f
>
> in your /etc/sane.d/genesys.conf: I don't know how is designed the
> genesys backend, so maybe it is sufficient to obtain a functionning
> scanner, minus the LiDE220 specificities?

Thanks for the suggestions.  The last didn't work. :-(  I'll try the other 
two - not simultaneously!  

Lisi