[SOLVED] Canon MP600 printer + Ubuntu?

corp769 · 03-04-2011, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Advice Pro

How do I open to edit the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf?
I found a way to upgrade Xsane by following a link from
the blog to a sane-backends page.

What do you mean open to edit? Are you asking just to edit the dll.conf file? Just use vi or vim or something like that.

LAPIII · 03-04-2011, 04:13 PM

Excuse my wording, I was asking just to edit the dll.conf file. I didn't know how to oepn the file, but I've now found a way:

Code:

gnome-open /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

As for my 2nd question about upgrading, Ill upgrade to the latest version, 1.0.22, I just want to know which file type is easiest to open/extract and how:

diff.gz
.tar.gz
.tar.gz.md5

corp769 · 03-04-2011, 05:05 PM

Diff.gz is just going to be the diff file, the .tar.gz is the actual file you need to work with, and the .tar.gz.md5 is just the MD5 checksum.

And as far as opening the files, you have a lot of editors out there; emacs, vi/vim, gedit, etc.

LAPIII · 03-04-2011, 06:06 PM

About editing that file to enable the right driver for my printer, correct me if I'm wrong, do I just delete the # in #canon_pp?

corp769 · 03-05-2011, 11:21 AM

The # character is used to comment out lines; so yes.

LAPIII · 03-05-2011, 01:00 PM

The file is Read Only, should I Save As dll.conf in sane.d and replace it with the file I'm saving?

corp769 · 03-05-2011, 01:16 PM

If it is read only, then you will need to edit it as root and save it.

LAPIII · 03-05-2011, 01:23 PM

How do I edit as root?

corp769 · 03-05-2011, 06:06 PM

You can use sudo or su.

Cheers,

Josh

PS - You need to learn the basics of linux...

LAPIII · 03-09-2011, 09:27 AM

Neither upgrading nor changing the file, with sudo, helped me. Perhaps I ought to try an alternative to Xsane, but I want to print & copy too. I'd even install KDE apps to do all of this.

LAPIII · 03-18-2011, 01:41 PM

To scan I'm using SimpleScan which came with Ubuntu 10.4