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sane-backends package

  1. Bug #1384303
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1384303

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) wrote : Re: Cannot scan using Canon Lide 25 with simple-scan on 14.04.

This is a regression bug as noth Simple Scan & Xsane used to work with my Canon Lide 25 scanner.

Scanner not recognised by xsane even though using USB2.

root@Desktop:/home/john# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04a9:2220 Canon, Inc. CanoScan LIDE 25

root@Desktop:/home/john# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04

root@Desktop:/home/john# apt-cache policy xsane
xsane:
  Installed: 0.998-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.998-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.998-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

root@Desktop:/home/john# apt-cache policy simple-scan
simple-scan:
  Installed: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.12.3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.12.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Simple scan doesn't even recognise my HP2540 printer/scanner even though xsane does.

PS my user is in the Scanner group