Using xsane with a Canon CanoScan LiDE 60 on Debian Etch

I got an inexpensive flatbed USB scanner and was disappointed with the bundled (Windows-only) software, so I tried it on Linux. Debian Etch installs xsane by default, but it would not recognize the scanner. I tried a whole bunch of things but nothing help, until I accidentally started xsane from a root terminal, and it “just worked”, despite the warning from xsane about running as root.

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5 Responses to “Using xsane with a Canon CanoScan LiDE 60 on Debian Etch”

  1. hey Says:
    February 17, 2008 at 4:23 pm | Reply

    addgroup scanner on your normal user and it will work

  2. fileformat Says:
    February 19, 2008 at 9:25 pm | Reply

    I tried addgroup and it did not work.

  3. HaC|away Says:
    March 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm | Reply

    I had the same Problem with the USB scanner CanoScan LiDE 25. Trying it as root worked for me too. I also got some strange messages in dmesg:
    ppdev0: registered pardevice
    ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
    thousends of them. Strange thing is ther isn’t a /dev/ppdev0 device.

  4. DSC Says:
    September 11, 2008 at 12:43 pm | Reply

    There’s a solution, even though I don’t remember how it’s done. I’ve done it work as a normal user in debian lenny, but I’ve recently reinstalled everything and I’m looking for it again…

  5. Adrian Boliston Says:
    November 9, 2008 at 8:32 pm | Reply

    I’ve got the lide60 and I’ll agree the windows software is not nearly as good as xsane – it seems to give much better control over the scan generally.

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