[sane-devel] scanimage can't open my scanner

[m. allan noah]

There is a known issue with some sane backends and USB 3. In
particular this seems to impact the fujitsu backend. In the short
term, you will need to switch to a USB2 port, and/or load the ehci
driver instead of the xhci driver, if possible.

allan

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Daniel Halloran
<dhalloran at trustcobank.com> wrote:
> I am using a USB 3.0 port, however i just realize my usb cable is a 2.0
> cable.
> I'm not sure if that is the issue.  Though that very well could be my issue.
> Also I am unsure of what version of sane-backend i am using
>
>
> On 11/04/2014 04:17 PM, m. allan noah wrote:
>>
>> Are you using a USB3 port? What version of sane-backends are you using?
>>
>> allan
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Halloran
>> <dhalloran at trustcobank.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm having issues getting a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 working on ubuntu.
>>> It recognizes the device in gscan2pdf, however when I select it I get
>>> this
>>> error message:
>>>
>>> open of device fujitsu:ScanSnap S1500:328443 failed: Invalid argument
>>> [gphoto2] init_gphoto2: error: serial:/dev/ttyd1 is not a valid gphoto2
>>> port.  Use "gphoto2 --list-ports" for list.
>>>
>>> I contacted the author of gscan2pdf, Jeffrey, and he tried helping me
>>> best
>>> as he could.
>>> He says,
>>>
>>> "Well - neither the perl bindings for SANE, nor scanimage could
>>> access the scanner. It should work:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=fujitsu&model=scansnap&bus=any&v=&p
>>>
>>> It might be worth asking on the SANE mailing list
>>>
>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
>>>
>>> Until you can get scanimage to open it, you won't get far with
>>> gscan2pdf, unfortunately."
>>>
>>> So here i am contacting the SANE mailing list.  Any help at all would be
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Daniel Halloran
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