On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Mark Buda <hermit at acm.org> wrote: > "Nils W." <webmaster at lanparty-wolfhagen.de> writes: > I have a Kodak i1120 scanner and would like to scan with it on an Alix > PC with Debian. Debian is installed on the Alix and the scanner is also > installed and is found by "scanimage -L". I would like, though, to scan > from the console without an X server. Software to do this is all > available [installed?]. When I run scantwain it complains about not > finding an X server and when I call scanimage I get Invalid Argument.
scanimage is as far as I know a console application. It sounds like the user has a mistake in the arguments. Perhaps you can post the relevant command here? Regards, Gernot Hassenpflug