On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:06:08 -0500 > fred smith wrote: > >> I've been messing around with building sane from source, but have not >> been fully successful, yet, so thought before butchering my system any >> further I should ask if anyone has (or can point me to) newer Sane >> packages for EL5?? > > This may be of interest to you. > > http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/canon-lide-110-scanner/ That would work fine with CentOS-6. But the OP is running EL5. I got my LiDE 110/210 working that was connected to a Scientific Linux 5.7 box. The following procedure was from about 14 months ago, so some part might not be current (but hopefully get you started). - Rebuild xsane 0.998 - Rebuild sane-backends 1.0.19 (later version did not rebuild) -> not good - Compile sane-backends 1.0.23 from git (tarball) [1] and manually copied genesys-related files from /usr/local/ - At this point scanner was found by root but not by non-root - Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change Mode from 0644 to 0666 ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", \ PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i $${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", \ NAME="%c", MODE="0666" [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2011-July/028852.html Hope this helps, Akemi