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Martin Ueding
Asked: 2011-04-03 04:10:18 +0800 CST

Getting a Canon LiDE 200 to work

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I have this Canon LiDE 200 but simple scan cannot use it properly. With the new sane-backend from rober-ancell's ppa the scanner head at least moves a little, but simple-scan simply fails telling me that the scanning fails in a red banner below the menu bar.

Is there some way to get it to work?

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  1. Best Answer

    I had the same error as the original poster, which led me here.

    The 40-libsane.rules file and the sane compatibility list suggested it should "just work", so I tinkered a bit and found that if you change the setting in Simple Scan preferences called Scan Side and set it to Back (rather than the default Front and Back), all is good.

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  2. First I followed the recommendations:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:robert-ancell/sane-backends
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libsane libsane-extras sane-utils

    Then I installed xsane and finally my Canoscan Lide 200 started to work.

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  3. This last part of the forum entry is what I had to do to get my scanner working

    If scanning doesn't work as a regular user, continue with step 3.

    3) To allow us to scan as a regular user, we need to modify the USB permissions for the scanner, so follow step 5 from Quote: Originally Posted by dli8ilb
    Now everything is installed, but you still won't be able to scan (except as root) until you set up some permissions.

    5) You need to edit a file, but you need to be root to edit it, so:

    gksu gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules

    and add the following 2 lines:

    # Canon CanoScan Lide 200
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1905", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

    save the file, exit gedit, exit terminal, reboot, and...

    My question about this is when a scanner driver is installed why is this file not automatically updated?

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  4. Just had some trouble getting the LiDE 200 working in Simple Scan running Precise.

    All I did was change Scan Side to "Back" in Simple Scan Preferences, add myself to the saned group, log out/in and voilà!

    Hope this helps.

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  5. I got exactly the same message on Natty. I installed the PPA: nothing. Running as root: nothing. Then I thought about using xsane so I did a: sudo aptitude install xsane

    Then used simple-scan and it worked :s Hope this also helps for you!

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  6. See this response on the Ubuntu forums. I did something similar for my LiDE 100

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