<p>Dear fellow XSane users,</p>
<p>Hopefully you can help me work out why my XSane program is returning the error message "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument".</p>
<p>I am a novice to the world of open source software, but had managed to install a copy of XSane v.0.998 onto my laptop, which is running an Operating System of Linux/Gnu Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr".</p>
<p>The program was working fine with my scanner, an Epson XP-322 printer/scanner device, but a few weeks ago the XSane interface stopped working.</p>
<p>I can still open the XSane program, and although my various other programs will still print files using the Epson XP-322, I can't scan or preview scans any more.</p>
<p>The fault seemed to coincide with when I altered the settings incorrectly to change the default filenames, but I changed the field with the floppy-disc symbol back to what it had been and the fault still persisted.</p>
<p>Please can anyone tell me what is the matter and how I can rectify the problem, preferably in language comprehensible to someone with very little experience of Linux or Sane/XSane?</p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>René Thomas<br>
<a href="mailto:1renepaulthomas@gmail.com">1renepaulthomas@gmail.com</a></p>