Hi Christopher, I don't remember what this was about - probably at first my Brother printer did not work with Ubuntu. But a year ago or so, Brother updated their scanner drivers, and that fixed it.
Best, Linda On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Linda, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. > > To see if this is already resolved, could you please test > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results? > > ** Changed in: sane-frontends (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > > ** Changed in: sane-frontends (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380419 > > Title: > scanner recognized but says sane_start: Invalid argument > > Status in sane-frontends package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > I'm not really sure which package this problem is in. This report > is from "ubuntu-bug sane". > > I tried "ubuntu-bug libsane" but it went to sane-backends. > > linda@gazelle:~$ scanimage -L > > device `brother4:bus2;dev1' is a Brother DCP-8155DN USB scanner > > linda@gazelle:~$ scanimage -T > > scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88 > scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567 > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > I originally reported the bug here (comments of elindarie): > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312594 > > and here > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380414 > > where I also uploaded some gscan2pdf log and config files. Gscan2pdf > also gives "invalid argument". > > I installed the Brother drivers. The scanner is working with an older > Debian laptop (32-bit) but not a newer Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) laptop. > > Added the following line to /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules: > > ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0293", > ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" > > If someone could tell me what more debugging to do - where to put > print statements into a driver and recompile it into a development > location for testing, I would gladly compare its output to that from > the working Debian laptop. > > Thank you. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 > Package: sane 1.0.14-9 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7 > Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 > ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: Unity > Date: Sun Oct 12 15:47:40 2014 > SourcePackage: sane-frontends > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-frontends/ > +bug/1380419/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380419 Title: scanner recognized but says sane_start: Invalid argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-frontends/+bug/1380419/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs