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Still more Brother and SANE insanities

Although both sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L now successfully detect the MFC-420CN scanner, actually attempting to execute a scan results in an “Invalid argument” error. Apparently, one or both of the USB printer (usblp) and mass-storage (usb-storage) modules conflict with sane when it comes to device access.

The good news, however, is that, upon closer inspection, the brother2 sane backend is actually fully open sourced. Not surprisingly, it has portions of SANE’s code packaged with it as well, which may or may not be compatible with my installed version of SANE. Consequently, it looks like I’ll be spending the next while re-packaging the source package so that it compiles and links on my Gentoo system in a less stupid way.

Wish me luck.

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One Response to “Still more Brother and SANE insanities”

  1. Allen Pike Says:
    September 2nd, 2007 at 00:23

    Good luck Yang. While most of us Mac people make fun of Gentoo people trying to recompile drivers to get their peripherals working, I’m sort of envious. Not of the recompiling, or the Gentoo, but of the feeling of conquest you’ll feel when your first scan works. I bet once it’s working you’ll be scanning left right and centre, as opposed to me who never really bothers to scan anything.

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