[sane-devel] Canon LiDE 50 not working on recently installed Debian Lenny

[m. allan noah]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:45 AM,  <sjnz at freenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Well it sounded like the scanner started; it made two short scanning
> sounds, then this message:
>
> h# scanimage > test.pnm
> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
>


well, that is something better- does this thing have a physical
carriage lock on the bottom? might need to unlock it. If not- try
getting the genesys log while scanning:

SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 scanimage > test.pnm 2>test.log

and lets look at test.log

allan
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