On 11 Oct 10:32, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
On Monday 11 October 2010 09:51:50 Bev Nicolson wrote:
id /says/ I'm in the scanner group. Hmm. XSane says 'Failed to open device snapscan:libusb:001:002 invalid argument' . Beats head against brick wall.
Bev.
If it turns out that you're not in the scanner group then do: sudo adduser yourusername scanner
Obviously replacing yourusername with, erm, your username...
OK, now try using vuescan again. Now it may work on xsane after you have got it working with that once. it does with me anyway, and no I have no idea why, so all this discussion has been most interesting.
But you know, at some point discretion is the better part of valor, and it is probably easiest to just buy vuescan, which is pretty decent package.
At a guess I'd say there's some missing firmware, but I'd need to look up the scanner, which I haven't had a chance to do yet... If it is that then there's some more things that we can probably do!
Reading around, there's a known bug, and the suggested workaround is to: sudo apt-get install scanbuttond
Thanks,