[sane-devel] Brother MFC-420CN via USB connection

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Do you receive the same error if you attempt to scan from command line?

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On 11. des. 2013, at 14:04, Jason H. Fuller <jason.fuller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've spent about 20 hrs now trying to get my USB / Network scanner working under Ubuntu Saucy or Linux Miint 16 - Petra.
> 
> I have an older machine that is dying (only boots when it wants to) that was running Linux Mint 14 - Nadia that scans just fine over USB, and I swear I had it working on my girlfriends laptop after I had upgraded her to Linux Mint 15 - Olivia.
> 
> Oddly after adding the suggested line to 40-libsane.rules xsane and simple scan open with out error, and the scanner is available for selection in simple scan.  However when I actually try to scan I get a "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument" error from xsane.  I know this scanner is picky and won't scan at the default 100 dpi, so I tried changing that, but it did not work.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
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