try disabling epson2 and use epson instead. allan
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com> wrote: > The scanner is Epson 640U, in recently installed openSuSE v11.3. YaST > > Scanners finds it and identifies it correctly; I have chosen the epson2 > driver. > > :~> scanimage -L > device `epson2:libusb:003:002' is a Epson Perfection640 flatbed scanner > :~> scanimage -T > scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > Attemps to scan produce "Failed to start scanner. Invalid argument", > which is not very informative. A review of a number of Google hits > doesn't add more. > > I have reviewed the xscan preferences screens, but have had to admit > defeat, and the fields are not sufficiently explained for me. > > I am assuming (hoping) that I have left something undone, but have not > found anything to point me to it. Ideas? Please. > -- > Stan Goodman > Qiryat Tiv'on > Israel > > -- > 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"