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

[Jason H. Fuller]

Sort of:
xsane -s
results in a graphical notification error:
Failed to open device 'brother2,bus2,dev1': Invalid argument.'


- JF


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <
gjermundprivat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you receive the same error if you attempt to scan from command line?
>
> } G {
>
> 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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