To bring the archives up to date... Way back on Mon Oct 13 10:16:02 PDT 2008 I wrote:
> What do I need to read to learn how to get my Epson Perfection 600 > scanner working on 8.04? This machine used to run SuSE 10.1. I had this > scsi scanner working on that distro. > > I powered up the scanner. When I ran xsane I got the error message > telling me that it couldn't find a scanner. (I expected this.) Using > Synaptic, I installed scsitools. I ran rescan-scsi-bus.sh and then ran > xsane again. Now it finds the scanner, but when I try to "Acquire > preview" I get the error message: Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument. Now that I have a machine I can use for testing I thought I'd see if things changed with Ubuntu Jaunty. They haven't. I still got Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument. when I tried to acquire a preview with xsane. As before, I noticed that xsane saw my scanner and correctly identified it. Other traffic related to xsane encouraged me to dig further. I searched for "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument." with Google and eventually ended up subscribing to the sane-devel mailing list. After asking the question there it was recommended that I run sane-find-scanner as root and report the message. Additionally, the same email recommended: 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 epson line, and try scanning again. The output of sane-find-scanner did not contain epson2, but I followed up on the recommendation to edit dll.conf. Sure enough, epson was commented out in favor of epson2. I reversed the commenting, tried again, and the scanner now works! -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
