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1ptb3b

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Registered: 2017-01-17

Posts: 95

CanoScan LiDE 300 scanner detected, but not supported [SOLVED]

Hello. I just bought a Canon CanoScan LiDE 300 standalone flatbed scanner. But it's not being recognized in Arch. I tried running these commands.

$ sudo sane-find-scanner
  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1913 [LiDE 300]) at libusb:001:002
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

When I run scanimage, I get this.

$ sudo scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

So then I went to http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane- … ml#Z-CANON to look up the scanner and saw this.

It seems like this scanner should be supported, right?

I installed the sane and xsane packages.

$ sudo pacman -Q sane
sane 1.0.27-2
$ sudo pacman -Q xsane
xsane 0.999-3

Last edited by 1ptb3b (2019-08-20 18:30:10)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,232

Re: CanoScan LiDE 300 scanner detected, but not supported [SOLVED]

See the following thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248452 It's likely supported in the 1.0.28 sane release, try using the ABS to rebuild an updated package or wait for the maintainer to bump.

1ptb3b

Member

Registered: 2017-01-17

Posts: 95

Re: CanoScan LiDE 300 scanner detected, but not supported [SOLVED]

Yup! Looks like you're exactly right.

I created an AUR package based off the 1.0.27 package from the official repo. Works great!

https://gitlab.com/variadico/sane-1.0.28/

In case anyone needs it now and doesn't want to wait.

(Also, I don't have too much experience making AURs, so feedback is welcome.)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: CanoScan LiDE 300 scanner detected, but not supported [SOLVED]

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

wooptoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 81

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Re: CanoScan LiDE 300 scanner detected, but not supported [SOLVED]

FYI I still encounter this issue with Canon LiDE 300 and sane 1.0.28-3 from extra.
Installing sane-git from AUR, which pulls version 20200201, fixed the issue for me.