[sane-devel] Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2010-06-09 Thread m. allan noah
It is possible that there is a problem with the sane backend used to talk to the scanner. What is the output of the command sane-find-scanner, run as root? If it shows a line containing epson2, you could try editing /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and '#' the epson2 line, and remove any '#' in front of the

[sane-devel] Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2010-06-04 Thread Richard C. Steffens
I recently installed Ubuntu Jaunty on a machine connected by SCSI to an Epson Perfection 600 flat bed scanner. When I run XSane I see that the program sees the scanner since its name and the port it's connected to, sg2, are listed in the window titles. However, when I click on Acquire preview

[sane-devel] failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2009-11-15 Thread Tzadik Vanderhoof
FYI... I resolved this issue. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+bug/478761 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20091115/ea8d95b9/attachment.htm

[sane-devel] failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2009-11-10 Thread Tzadik Vanderhoof
I have a Brother MFC 210C. I have just done a fresh install on this machine of Ubuntu 9.10 and scanning no longer works. (Printing works fine) I have installed these packages from the Brother site: cupswrapperMFC210C-1.0.2-3. i386.deb mfc210clpr-1.0.2-1.i386.deb brscan2-0.2.4-0.i386.deb When I

[sane-devel] failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2009-11-10 Thread m. allan noah
I am sorry, we do not provide support for brother's proprietary software. Ask the maker. allan On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Tzadik Vanderhoof tzadik.vanderhoof at gmail.com wrote: I have a Brother MFC 210C. ?I have just done a fresh install on this machine of Ubuntu 9.10 and scanning no

[sane-devel] Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

2009-02-08 Thread HB Estes
I'm a Linux newbie and I have an HP 3500c usb scanner which gave me the subject error constantly. I can't tell you how many hours I've wasted trying to get this scanner to work. If you Google the subject text a lot of other people have had the same error. Fortunately I stumbled across the