[sane-devel] genius colorpage vivid4x

[m. allan noah]

Skip xsane for a minute:

scanimage > test.pnm

Does that produce an image test.pnm?

If not, try to get some debugging info:

SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=255 scanimage > test.pnm 2>test.log

then see what test.log says.

allan

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Kanaan <kanaan at fsc.ufsc.br> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I had this problem in openSuSE 11.1, switched to ubuntu 10.04, same problem.
>
> On my genius colorpage vivid4x I first tried scanning :
>
>
> hal:~/personal> sane-find-scanner
>
>  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
>  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
>  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
>
>  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
>  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0458, product=0x201b [600DPI USB Scanner],
> chip=GT-6816) at libusb:007:002
>  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
>  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.
>
>  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
>  # can't be detected by this program.
>
>  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
>  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
>  # necessary.
> hal:~/personal> scanimage -L
> device `gt68xx:libusb:007:002' is a Genius Colorpage Vivid4x flatbed scanner
> hal:~/personal> sane
> saned             sane-find-scanner
> hal:~/personal> sane
> saned             sane-find-scanner
> hal:~/personal> sudo apt-get install xsane
> [sudo] password for kanaan:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>  libdirac-encoder0 libopenjpeg2 libfaad2
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  xsane-common
> Suggested packages:
>  xsane-doc hylafax-client mgetty-fax gv gocr
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  xsane xsane-common
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1,087kB of archives.
> After this operation, 4,174kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> Get:1 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe
> xsane-common 0.996-2ubuntu3 [748kB]
> Get:2 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe xsane
> 0.996-2ubuntu3 [339kB]
> Fetched 1,087kB in 10s (100kB/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package xsane-common.
> (Reading database ... 226990 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xsane-common (from .../xsane-common_0.996-2ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package xsane.
> Unpacking xsane (from .../xsane_0.996-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
> Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
> Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for python-support ...
> Setting up xsane-common (0.996-2ubuntu3) ...
> Setting up xsane (0.996-2ubuntu3) ...
>
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> hal:~/personal> rehash
> hal:~/personal> xsane
> [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file
> (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory
>
>
> Then I downloaded the file ccd548.fw and I do not get the
>
>
> [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file
> (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory
>
> message anymore.  However xsane still displays:
>
> Failed to open device `gt68xx:libusb:007:012`: Invalid argument
>
>
> I have had this scanner working with sane in the past, any clues as to
> what I am missing?
>
> thanks,
>
> Antonio
>
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