[sane-devel] Redhat 9 mustek 1200 xsane invalid argument

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 12:53:25 UTC 2008


SANE_DEBUG_DLL=4 xsane 2>dll.log

dll.log should show which libraries it is loading.

allan

On 3/20/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>  I tried $ ldconfig
>  but still getting "invalid argument" error.
>
>  Thanks for taking the time to help resolve this for me.
>  I'm open to more ideas, thanks.
>  Martin
>
>  m. allan noah wrote:
>  try /usr/local/lib instead. and you might have to run ldconfig afterwards
>
> allan
>
> On 3/20/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I changed the file /etc/ld.so.conf , to look at "/usr/local/lib/sane"
>  /usr/kerberos/lib
>  /usr/X11R6/lib
>  /usr/local/lib/sane
>  /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
>
>  but the command $ xsane gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0
>  still errors out with >> "Failed to open device
>
> gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0: Invalid argument."
>
>
> m. allan noah wrote:
>  > i bet xsane is using the system copy, and scanimage is using the
>  > replacement. redhat does not put /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf. so
>  > either do that, or even better, reconfigure to overwrite the old copy,
>  > and reinstall.
>  >
>  > allan
>  >
>  > On 3/19/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Yes, I have,
>  >> /usr/lib/sane/
>  >> and
>  >> /usr/local/lib/sane/ <this being the most recently installed Mar 17
> 2008>
>  >>
>  >>
>
>
>
>
>  On 3/19/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>  >>
>  >> I tried , SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=4 xsane 2> mt1200.log
>  >> But it does not produce any output.
>  >> Do I need to ./configure something with the debug switch enabled?
>  >>
>  >> The version of xsane I have is - could this be a problem?
>  >> --------------------------------------
>  >> $ xsane --version
>  >> xsane-0.89 (c) 1998-2002 Oliver Rauch
>  >> Email: Oliver.Rauch at xsane.org
>  >> package xsane-0.89
>  >> compiled with GTK-2.2.0
>  >> without GIMP support
>  >> --------------------------------------
>  >> Thanks.
>  >>
>  >>
>
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>  >>
>  >> >>
>  >> >> Hello,
>  >> >> I can get my mustek 1200 scanner working using,
>  >> >>
>  >> >> As a normal user I can scan it:
>  >> >> $ /usr/local/bin/scanimage
>  >> --device-name=gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0 --mode
>  >> >> Color --resolution 600 > aaa.pnm
>  >> >>
>  >> >> I can open up the file in Gimp and save it as aaa.jpg file format:
>  >> >> $ gimp aaa.pnm
>  >> >>
>  >> >> But...
>  >> >> when trying to execute the xsane command,
>  >> >>
>  >> >> $ xsane gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0
>  >> >> or
>  >> >> $ xsane
>  >> >>
>  >> >> I get error message, >> Failed to open device
> gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0:
>  >> >> Invalid argument.
>  >> >>
>  >> >> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
>  >> >>
>  >>
>
>
>
>
>


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