[sane-devel] unclear error message
Hi Jeremy, I saw on the list that you've already got the scanner to work with the newer sane-backends-1.0.22. Good. The epson2 backend in 1.0.21 had a couple of pretty bad show-stoppers :-( Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
[sane-devel] unclear error message
On 07/08/2011 11:06 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: You might try an update to 1.0.22, which is in the Fedora 14 updates repository. Either use yum update for a general update of your Fedora system, or yum update sane-backends to update just that. Alternatively (if your machine has no Internet access) retrieve just the sane-backends package from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/14/i386/sane-backends-1.0.22-3.fc14.i686.rpm and copy it for local installation on the subject system. I expect the SANE maintainers would prefer to diagnose a problem on the latest version, instead of 1.0.21. Seems to work now! Surprise, as I had the scanner working under Ubuntu a year or so ago, long before Fedora 14 arrived, so I didn't think of the possibility that the problem would be due to having old software. Anyway, it works now - thanks very much Jeremy
[sane-devel] unclear error message
I'm not sure where the query should go - please advise. Trying to scan something, xsane give the message Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument Also scanimage image.pnm give the message scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Where do I find the information to determine what is wrong? Regards, Jeremy Dawson
[sane-devel] unclear error message
Hi, On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jeremy Dawson jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au wrote: I'm not sure where the query should go - please advise. Trying to scan something, xsane give the message Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument Also scanimage image.pnm give the message scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Where do I find the information to determine what is wrong? Have you read the documentation? see http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html Please provide more detailed information about your equipment and the problem, so that people are able to help you. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
[sane-devel] unclear error message
On 07/08/2011 05:30 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jeremy Dawson jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au wrote: I'm not sure where the query should go - please advise. Trying to scan something, xsane give the message Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument Also scanimageimage.pnm give the message scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Where do I find the information to determine what is wrong? Have you read the documentation? see http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html Please provide more detailed information about your equipment and the problem, so that people are able to help you. HTH Thanks for the prompt reply: Thanks for the pointer to the documentation, I've found http://ljm.home.xs4all.nl/SANE-faq.html#50 which looks most nearly relevant but not quite. The equipment is EPSON-Stylus-CX5300 (according to the Printing tool), but I get [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -L device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson CX5400 flatbed scanner Here is exactly what I did with scanimage: [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage image.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -d epson2:libusb:003:002 image.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument In xsane I just started it up and clicked Scan I can't think of any further relevant details but happy to provide them if I know exactly what further details are required Thanks, Jeremy Dawson
[sane-devel] unclear error message
Jeremy Dawson jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au writes: The equipment is EPSON-Stylus-CX5300 (according to the Printing tool), but I get [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -L device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson CX5400 flatbed scanner For SANE backend purposes these are the same. Here is exactly what I did with scanimage: [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage image.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -d epson2:libusb:003:002 image.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Not sure whether this is still an issue, but have you tried specifying a resolution? The CX5300 should be able to do 100 but check the output of scanimage -h for the `--resolution` option for details. There was a time where the default resolution of 300 wasn't checked against what the device could actually do. I can't think of any further relevant details but happy to provide them if I know exactly what further details are required The out.log file that results from SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage out.pnm 2 out.log FWIW, Image Scan! for Linux[1] supports this model just fine. Click the All-in-Ones icon and use your browser's find functionality (Ctrl+F ?) to locate the CX5300. [1] http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/ Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962
[sane-devel] unclear error message
On 07/08/2011 08:12 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Jeremy Dawsonjlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au writes: The equipment is EPSON-Stylus-CX5300 (according to the Printing tool), but I get [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -L device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson CX5400 flatbed scanner For SANE backend purposes these are the same. Here is exactly what I did with scanimage: [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimageimage.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -d epson2:libusb:003:002image.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Not sure whether this is still an issue, but have you tried specifying a resolution? The CX5300 should be able to do 100 but check the output of scanimage -h for the `--resolution` option for details. I tried this - no difference [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage a.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage --resolution 100 b.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument There was a time where the default resolution of 300 wasn't checked against what the device could actually do. I can't think of any further relevant details but happy to provide them if I know exactly what further details are required The out.log file that results from SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage out.pnm 2 out.log [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage out.pnm 2 out.log [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ ls -l out.log -rw-r--r--. 1 jeremy jeremy 39927 Jul 8 22:16 out.log Output file is attached FWIW, Image Scan! for Linux[1] supports this model just fine. Click the All-in-Ones icon and use your browser's find functionality (Ctrl+F ?) to locate the CX5300. [1] http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/download/ I'm going away for 2 weeks soon (if I'd known I'd get replies so quickly I would have deferred this until I return - thanks for such speedy replies). I'll try this when I return. thanks again, Jeremy Hope this helps, -- next part -- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: out.log URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110708/02322bb4/attachment-0001.ksh
[sane-devel] unclear error message
On 07/08/2011 10:18 PM, m. allan noah wrote: What version of sane-backends is this? allan This is running on Fedora 14, package name is [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ rpm -q sane-backends sane-backends-1.0.21-3.fc14.i686 hope this includes the info you want - or this looks as though it should do so [jeremy at home2006 ~]$ scanimage -V scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.21; backend version 1.0.21 Cheers, Jeremy
[sane-devel] unclear error message
You might try an update to 1.0.22, which is in the Fedora 14 updates repository. Either use yum update for a general update of your Fedora system, or yum update sane-backends to update just that. Alternatively (if your machine has no Internet access) retrieve just the sane-backends package from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/14/i386/sane-backends-1.0.22-3.fc14.i686.rpm and copy it for local installation on the subject system. I expect the SANE maintainers would prefer to diagnose a problem on the latest version, instead of 1.0.21.
[sane-devel] unclear error message
Actually, it might have worked under 1.0.20 and 1.0.22, but been broken under 1.0.21. allan On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jeremy Dawson jlcaadawson at netspeed.com.au wrote: On 07/08/2011 11:06 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: You might try an update to 1.0.22, which is in the Fedora 14 updates repository. ?Either use yum update for a general update of your Fedora system, or yum update sane-backends to update just that. Alternatively (if your machine has no Internet access) retrieve just the sane-backends package from: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/14/i386/sane-backends-1.0.22-3.fc14.i686.rpm and copy it for local installation on the subject system. I expect the SANE maintainers would prefer to diagnose a problem on the latest version, instead of 1.0.21. Seems to work now! ?Surprise, as I had the scanner working under Ubuntu a year or so ago, long before Fedora 14 arrived, so I didn't think of the possibility that the problem would be due to having old software. Anyway, it works now - thanks very much Jeremy -- The truth is an offense, but not a sin
