Kyocera SANE Driver for Arch Linux

An Arch Linux package for the proprietary Kyocera SANE scanner driver.

The package repackages the Kyocera Linux SANE driver distributed as a Debian package and integrates it with the Arch Linux filesystem layout and device-management mechanisms.

Kyocera publishes the Linux scanner driver as a ZIP archive. The current upstream download listed by Kyocera is SANE Driver 2.2.1511 for Linux.

Features

The package provides the Kyocera SANE backends:

kyocera
kyocera_gdi_a3
kyocera_wc3
kyocera_wc3_usb

The corresponding SANE configuration is installed as:

/etc/sane.d/dll.d/kyocera.conf

The package supports the following 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures:

i386
i486
i586
i686
x86_64

The architecture-specific Debian package supplied by Kyocera is selected automatically during the package build.

USB Scanning

The Kyocera SANE backend requires direct access to the USB device through libusb.

For this reason, the package installs:

/usr/lib/modprobe.d/kyocera-sane.conf

with:

blacklist usblp

This prevents the usblp kernel driver from claiming the USB printer interface required by the Kyocera backend.

A udev rule is also installed for the Kyocera FS-1020MFP USB device:

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-kyocera-sane.rules

The rule grants the active desktop user access to USB device:

Vendor ID: 0482
Product ID: 0495

without requiring applications to run as root.

Installation

Clone the repository and build the package with makepkg:

git clone https://debver.com/debug-version/kyocera-sane.git
cd kyocera-sane

makepkg -si

The package version is determined automatically from the Kyocera support page instead of being hard-coded in PKGBUILD.

After installation, reload the udev rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

Reconnect the scanner if necessary.

Verifying the SANE Backend

Check that the Kyocera backend configuration exists:

cat /etc/sane.d/dll.d/kyocera.conf

Expected output:

kyocera
kyocera_gdi_a3
kyocera_wc3
kyocera_wc3_usb

Then check whether SANE can detect the scanner:

scanimage -L

For more detailed diagnostics:

SANE_DEBUG_KYOCERA=255 scanimage -L

The exact debug variable supported by a particular Kyocera backend may depend on the upstream driver version.

Temporary Files

The proprietary Kyocera backend creates temporary files in the hard-coded directory:

/usr/local/kyocera/scanner

The package therefore sets its permissions to:

1777

This allows the backend to create and remove its temporary files while preventing users from deleting files belonging to other users.

udev Rule Changes

The original Kyocera package contains the following vendor udev rule:

/etc/udev/rules.d/40-scanner-permissions.rules

The package does not install this rule as-is because it grants 0666 permissions to all USB devices.

Instead, the original rule is preserved as documentation:

/usr/share/doc/kyocera-sane/40-scanner-permissions.rules

and a device-specific rule is installed for the supported Kyocera scanner.

Installed Files

The package installs or modifies the following relevant paths:

/etc/sane.d/dll.d/kyocera.conf
/usr/lib/modprobe.d/kyocera-sane.conf
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-kyocera-sane.rules
/usr/local/kyocera/scanner
/usr/share/doc/kyocera-sane/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/kyocera-sane/40-scanner-permissions.rules
/usr/share/licenses/kyocera-sane/COPYRIGHT

The upstream documentation is installed under /usr/share/doc/kyocera-sane/README.txt.

Packaging Notes

This repository does not contain a reimplementation of the Kyocera scanner backend. It packages the proprietary Kyocera driver supplied by the vendor.

The upstream package is downloaded from Kyocera's official download infrastructure during the Arch package build.

The package is currently marked as proprietary in PKGBUILD:

license=('LicenseRef-proprietary')

Source

Kyocera Document Solutions — product support and downloads:

https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.eu/

The Linux SANE driver is distributed by Kyocera as a ZIP archive containing architecture-specific Debian packages.

Repository Structure

kyocera-sane/
├── PKGBUILD
└── kyocera-sane.install

License

The package contains proprietary software distributed by Kyocera.

See the installed:

/usr/share/licenses/kyocera-sane/COPYRIGHT

for the upstream copyright and license information.