Hi, On 07.12.2007, at 15:26, Patrick wrote: > I have an Epson 3490. It did work in Ubuntu Edgy but not too well. > If I > used it in Windoze and then Ubuntu it worked fine. However if it > was not > re-initialized under windoze every so often it would not work. > ... > but I get this message when I use xsane: > > Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:005:002"; > Invalid argument > > > Someone posted a configuration file fix but I can't find any > mention of > a firmware file in test.conf > > you then edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and replace : > > firmware /etc/sane.d/test.conf > > with the full path to the firmware and it should work fine and dandy ! >
You need to replace /etc/sane.d/test.conf with the path and filename to your firmware file. The firmware file can be found on your windows driver CD and is named esfw52.bin. For additional information see http://snapscan.sourceforge.net . If you don't get it to work feel free to contact me. Regards, Oliver