[sane-devel] Problem using SX410 scanner - Invalid argument error

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Steffan Harris <scisteffan at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm getting invalid argument errors when trying to run scanimage >
> out.pnm using an Epson SX410 printer/scanner unit running
> sane-backends 1.0.21 on Debian. Here's the debug output:
>
> steffan at debian:~$ scanimage -L
> device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Built-in iSight virtual device
> device `epson2:libusb:001:014' is a Epson PID 0851 flatbed scanner
> steffan at debian:~$ scanimage --version
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.21; backend version 1.0.21
> steffan at debian:~$ SANE_DEBUG_EPSON2=255 scanimage > out.pnm
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson2 to 255.
> [epson2] sane_epson2_get_devices - results:
> [... snip ...]
> [epson2]  0 (3): PID 0851

Things look OK so far, but

> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> [epson2] sane_epson2_exit
> [epson2] free_devices

I'd have expected at least a

  [epson2] sane_epson_2_sane_start

before the scanimage message.  Sure you sent all of the log?

FWIW, several epson2 backend bugs were fixed in sane-backends-1.0.22 so
you might want to give that a try.  Alternatively, you can try the
epkowa backend distributed as part of Image Scan! for Linux[1].  It is
known to work just fine.

 [1] http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL1.do (for all-in-ones,
     like the Epson Stylus SX410 you have)
     http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/scan/DL1.do (for scanners)

Hope this helps,
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