[sane-devel] gimp error msg calling xsane

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On 2006-04-06 14:38, Colin Brace wrote:
> On my Fedora Core 5 system, xsane 0.99 in standalone mode works fine
> with my scanner; it also works fine from within gimp v2.2.10. But when I
> launch it from within gimp v2.3.7, I get a peculiar error message:
> 
>  Failed to open device `gimp':
>  Invalid argument

Looks like xsane wants to open a SANE device called "gimp". Quite
strange.

You could enable the environment varaible XSANE_DEBUG and set it to
some value. 255 is maximum. Maybe this shows the source of the problem.

Bye,
  Henning