<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div>That's great!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM Don Pitcher <<a href="mailto:donpitcher2000@proton.me">donpitcher2000@proton.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Thank you Ralf!!! Your recommendation fixed the problem.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I have added your and Andy's input to the Linux Mint tutorial thread for others to utilize.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2632549#p2632549" target="_blank">https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2632549#p2632549</a></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Don Pitcher</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div>
On Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 at 12:28 PM, Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank">skelband@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Don,</div><div>Someone here very recently had exactly the same problem with the brother3 backend driver from Brother.</div><div>Basically, their backend is very good, but things have moved on in the Linux world since it was built by them which has introduced some incompatibilities.</div><div><br></div><div>There are a number of issues:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Linux Mint (and Ubuntu upon which it is based) puts its platform-specific shared objects in a different place. So the installed shared objects cannot be found. The package puts them in /usr/lib64 whereas Ubuntu/Mint expects them in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. You can add symbolic links in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to the files installed into /usr/lib64. One way is:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/sane /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane</div><div><br></div><div>2) libusb has changed. The package needs an old version, which is still available in the repo. Try this:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt install libusb-0.1-4</div><div><br></div><div>OK, so now you should be able to see a device from scanimage -L. The device class is called "brother3" not "brscan3" BTW.</div><div><br></div><div>I just worked through this sequence on my fresh install and it seems to work for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Let us know how you get on.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM Don Pitcher via sane-devel <<a href="mailto:sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:0.875rem">Hello SANE-dev ,</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:0.875rem"><br></span></p>
<p dir="ltr">I am troubleshooting a problem with SANE scanimage unable connect to a third party driver (backend). I have exhausted all resources that I know of to solve this problem. Could you take a moment to review my post on the Linux Mint forum to help guide me to a helpful resource?</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><div><span>$ sudo scanimage -d brscan3 -T</span></div><div><div><span>Output format is not set, using pnm as a default.</span></div><div><span>scanimage: open of device brscan3 failed: Invalid argument</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span><a href="https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2632488#p2632488" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2632488#p2632488</a></span></div><p dir="ltr"></p>
<p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Thank you, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Don, aka: sk8board</p>
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