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[Rattlehead]

I downloaded the printer drivers for the Canon Pixma MP250 in my Presario CQ50 from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47444 and installed them without problem (thanks Patriot). The scanner, nevertheless, seems to be more tricky: xsane keeps not recognizing my model (in fact, it is not included in Sane's "supported devices" list http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON).

Things I tried:

1) This forum entry http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50878
is for a different Pixma model, but through it I discovered that there is a command called "pixmascan" that allows you to scan from console. I have Puppy 4.3.1., so I should have pixmascan, but I don't ("command not found")

2) Via an Ubuntu forum (can't find the link), I read that I had to download and decompress scangear from Canon http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100237401.html
I did it, but no results at all.

3) A new focus that seemed very promising: a whole blog on Canon Pixma models. I followed the best I could the instructions to update Sane as explained here:
http://mp610.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-your-scanner-new-freshly-sane.html

I found this obstacle, though:

[Sit Heel Speak]

I have an MP210.

All it needed for the scanner was mp150_sane-0.14.4.pet and scangearmp_common-1.10-1.i386.pet, both from rcrsn51, at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42703.

[Rattlehead]

Nope. I tried that but no luck. Pixma mp250 is not included among the covered models. I installed both scangears because 20 was said to add support for other models, but xsane continues not detecting my scanner. Typing "Pixmascan -LL" shows a list of models (no mp250, it jumps from mp220 to mp470), and the message "No supported scanner found".

Any other suggestion?

[muggins]

Edited: See post a bit further along.

[Rattlehead]

Oh goodness!

[muggins]

Try uninstalling, then re-installing the .pet I just re-uploaded, with the missing symlink.

Otherwise, on the commandline, you just need to run:

[Rattlehead]

Pet un and reinstalled. Still no luck.
Output when creating the link:

[muggins]

I'll have to get back to you on this...whilst I do have gimp installed on my setup, I have absolutely no idea why scangearmp would link with those library files? I'll try recompiling without any gimp installed.

[Rattlehead]

Thanks for your efforts muggins. I'll be glad to hear of you.

[muggins]

Rattlehead,

I looked at the source, and they're deliberately compiling it to be able to use Gimp plugin functionality. So the simplest thing would be to just install Gimp. I'm using version 2.4.6, so just do a search in the additional software section.

Otherwise, on recompiling, it seems a lot of the library files I included in the original .pet were unneeded, so the attached package is a lot smaller.

Let us know how you go if you re-install this, plus gimp.

[Rattlehead]

Thanks Muggin, I was looking forward to install Gimp anyway, so this is no problem for me. I'll give it a try this weekend, when I have some more time, and tell you how it goes.

[Rattlehead]

Almost there, I think. I managed to install Gimp from http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Graphics/Gimp-2.6.3/

It took me a while because, whenever I installed glib-2.6.6-i486, my computer became stupid -did not obey to icons, and the like. I had a different glib version already installed, I guess, because, simply excluding that file from installation, Gimp works without any error.

OK. First try: xsane still ignores me

Then I created the symbolic link

[muggins]

Try doing:

[Sit Heel Speak]

Try this. It contains the newest sane frontend and backend software for all Canon scanners, plus scangear-common-1.40-1.

It is probably much bigger than you need.

Try Menu --> Graphic --> Graphic Utilities --> XSane

It also has scangearmp and pixmascan but I haven't tried these.

It works on my MP210 and has the definitions for the MP250, so it should work for you.

pixma-sane-and-scangear-1.0.0.pet
(right-click on the "Click here to download" button at bottom of page, and save linked target)
File size: 2.4MB
md5sum:
# md5sum pixma-sane-and-scangear-1.0.0.pet
c488825b6daf5ca30d07849910c53d1e pixma-sane-and-scangear-1.0.0.pet

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