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FS#21997 - [sane] cannot scan with Epson USB scanner -- sane_start failed: Invalid argument

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by jakob lund (jakob_bebop) - Monday, 06 December 2010, 11:51 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 06 December 2010, 19:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I cannot scan with xsane. The scanner is found, but scanning fails. Error message: "sane_start: Invalid argument"

On the command line,
scanimage -L
will display my Epson scanner, similar to "`epson2:libusb:001:003` is an Epson scanner". If I use the command
scanimage > file.pnm
or
scanimage -d epson2:libusb:001:003 > file.pnm
I get the same error message as in XSane.

If, on the other hand, I use the less verbose
scanimage -d epson > file.pnm
i get an image (I can set the size, resolution etc as well with the corresponding options).

I suspect this is a configuration- or version incompatibility problem -- that's why I post here rather that at the Sane project.


The scanner is a CX-3200 printer/scanner unit.
sane is version 1.0.21-3, xsane is 0.998-1.

I cleared my ~/.sane configuration, but that didn't help either.

regards
Jakob.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 06 December 2010, 19:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 06 December 2010, 19:01 GMT
Please use the other backend, epson offers 2 kinds of backend, just try the other one and it will work.

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