Scanner conflict with Webcam

FredGSanford · 03-10-2011, 09:25 AM

I've been using my AAO netbook recently and connected my Brother AIO printer, which has a scanner also. I'm having an issue, Mandriva 2010.2 see it as a webcam when using xsane. I do not see any options to choose which device to use while running xsane and Gimp. If I start Cheese, it does work with the cam though. When I used the printer on a different computer without a webcam, the scanner worked, it was runninig Mdv also.

Any ideas suggestions on solving this issue?

Thnx.

corp769 · 03-10-2011, 12:19 PM

Have you tried pointing to the device manually?

FredGSanford · 03-11-2011, 03:05 PM

Not sure how to point it directly to the scanner. What am I looking for to point it?

Doing an lsusb, this is what I see for the cam and scanner, if it's any help:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04f9:016d Brother Industries, Ltd MFC-5440CN

First time I've run across this issue.

Thnx.

bluebox · 03-11-2011, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FredGSanford

I do not see any options to choose which device to use while running xsane and Gimp.

Maybe, this is a pointer:
I have two scanners - both connected over the network, so no trivial configuration. When only one scanner is configured, I can select it from within gimp via
File menu -> Acquire -> XSane
When both scanners are configured, I get:
File menu -> Acquire -> XSane -> Device dialog ...

gimp relies on xsane, and xsane relies on sane. Possibly - or likely - sane uses the first scanner it finds, unless you do manually configure both scanners to be valid.

What does
scanimage -L
say?

FredGSanford · 03-12-2011, 08:29 AM

$ scanimage -L
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname USB 2.0 Camera virtual device

When I open Gimp and load a graphic file, for the life of me I don't see Acquire from the File menu area.

Thnx.