On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:21:40 +0100 James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
In my enthusiasm to ditch windows i thought i'd attempt to get my scanner working as it seems drivers are now available for the GL646 chip.
Ubuntu wiki have a 'how-to'
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckIfScannerIsClone
The first link appears to download more than necessary it seems.
I would be grateful if someone more knowledgeable on drivers could read those pages through as something isn't right somewhere. I was just going to buy another scanner but the latest Canoscan (and others) also use the GL646 chip.
According to sane, it's fully supported - http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html so I would assume in my naivety that you'd just plug it in and it would work!
My Canon LIDE 25 is not supported according to that list and yet it works fine. If I fire up XSane, it scans for the devices, lists a webcam and the scanner and that's it. I have to confess that I haven't yet managed to get to grips with all the options in XSane and so use it in Windows XP under Virtual Box :-(