[sane-devel] Nikon Coolscan IV recognized but fails scanimage with "Invalid argument"

[m. allan noah]

Start by upgrading to a current version of sane?

allan

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Michael Hess <mjhess at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> I am trying to set up a Nikon Coolscan IV
> under Ubuntu 10.04, kernel: 2.6.32-32-generic
>
>    sane-find-scanner
> reports:
>    scanner (vendor=0x04b0 [Nikon], product=0x4000 [LS-40 ED]) at
> libusb:005:002
>
>    scanimage --version:
>    scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.20; backend version 1.0.20
>
>    scanimage -L:
>    device `coolscan3:usb:libusb:005:002' is a Nikon LS-40 ED film scanner
>
> But when I do a test via
>    scanimage -T
> I get a:
>    scanimage: open of device coolscan3:usb:libusb:005:002 failed: Invalid
> argument
>
> It didn'tt matter what other options I tried setting with scanimage.
>
> I am assuming this is an "obvious" error to somebody, but I could not find
> anything
> to help me resolve this. Any pointers as to what may be going on or where to
> look next?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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