[sane-devel] Resolved: "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument"

[m. allan noah]

Glad I could help. Unfortunately, the epson2 backend is supposed to be
a replacement for epson, so I'd like to get to the bottom of this, if
you have the time? Should not be very complicated to get a log of
where epson2 goes wrong...

allan

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> m. allan noah wrote:
>>
>> It is possible that there is a problem with the sane backend used to
>> talk to the scanner. What is the output of the command
>> sane-find-scanner, run as root?
>>
>
> found SCSI scanner "EPSON Perfection600 V2.4" at /dev/sg2
>
>> If it shows a line containing epson2, you could try editing
>> /etc/sane.d/dll.conf, and '#' the epson2 line, and remove any '#' in
>> front of the epson line, and try scanning again.
>>
>
> Even though the above output does not contain epson2 I followed up on your
> idea and did switch dll.conf so that epson is uncommented and epson2 is
> commented. That solved my problem.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
>



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