Skip xsane for a minute: scanimage > test.pnm
Does that produce an image test.pnm? If not, try to get some debugging info: SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=255 scanimage > test.pnm 2>test.log then see what test.log says. allan On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Kanaan <kanaan at fsc.ufsc.br> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I had this problem in openSuSE 11.1, switched to ubuntu 10.04, same problem. > > On my genius colorpage vivid4x I first tried scanning : > > > hal:~/personal> sane-find-scanner > > ?# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the > ?# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your > ?# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. > > ?# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that > ?# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x0458, product=0x201b [600DPI USB Scanner], > chip=GT-6816) at libusb:007:002 > ?# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by > ?# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > ?# Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > ?# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports > ?# can't be detected by this program. > > ?# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you > ?# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as > ?# necessary. > hal:~/personal> scanimage -L > device `gt68xx:libusb:007:002' is a Genius Colorpage Vivid4x flatbed scanner > hal:~/personal> sane > saned ? ? ? ? ? ? sane-find-scanner > hal:~/personal> sane > saned ? ? ? ? ? ? sane-find-scanner > hal:~/personal> sudo apt-get install xsane > [sudo] password for kanaan: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > ?libdirac-encoder0 libopenjpeg2 libfaad2 > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > The following extra packages will be installed: > ?xsane-common > Suggested packages: > ?xsane-doc hylafax-client mgetty-fax gv gocr > The following NEW packages will be installed: > ?xsane xsane-common > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded. > Need to get 1,087kB of archives. > After this operation, 4,174kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y > Get:1 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe > xsane-common 0.996-2ubuntu3 [748kB] > Get:2 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe xsane > 0.996-2ubuntu3 [339kB] > Fetched 1,087kB in 10s (100kB/s) > Selecting previously deselected package xsane-common. > (Reading database ... 226990 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking xsane-common (from .../xsane-common_0.996-2ubuntu3_all.deb) ... > Selecting previously deselected package xsane. > Unpacking xsane (from .../xsane_0.996-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... > Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... > Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... > Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache... > Processing triggers for menu ... > Processing triggers for man-db ... > Processing triggers for python-support ... > Setting up xsane-common (0.996-2ubuntu3) ... > Setting up xsane (0.996-2ubuntu3) ... > > Processing triggers for menu ... > hal:~/personal> rehash > hal:~/personal> xsane > [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file > (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory > > > Then I downloaded the file ccd548.fw and I do not get the > > > [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file > (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory > > message anymore. ?However xsane still displays: > > Failed to open device `gt68xx:libusb:007:012`: Invalid argument > > > I have had this scanner working with sane in the past, any clues as to > what I am missing? > > thanks, > > Antonio > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
