Re: [Hampshire] Canon Lide 80 scanner on Ubuntu

On Monday 12 Feb 2007 13:38, Stephen Davies wrote:
> I have an LIDE 60 and it works on Knoppix but not on Ubuntu. Both OOTB
> live versions. There is a subtle under the hood difference that seems to
> stop it working on Ubuntu. I just tried the same scanner on FC6. It
> works fine. I didn't need to load anything apart from SANE.

I have a Canon Lide 30 myself, and have installed a Canon Lide 20 for someone
else. Both just worked OOTB using Sane. But I did some careful checking on
the Sane webpage before the 20 was bought. The 30 working was fluke - and as
it doesn't work under XP I chalked one up to Linux. :-)

Lisi