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Re: [LUG] understanding error messages

 

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 11:55 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote:

> Sounds like a call from sane or one of one of the sane libs.
I had opened xsane which started scanning for devices and came up with
the message.
> 
> Do you have permissions to open the USB device, scanners seem to be a
> slight pain as the udev rules are not always set for the required USB
> ID to give user (not root) access.
> 
> Try "sane-find-scanner"and "scanimage -L" to see if sane knows about
> your scanner (as root), if you can get the sane tools playing as root
> then get them working as normal user.

I get "command not found"

> 
> man sane, man sane-find-scanner,
I get "no manual entry for "sane-find-scanner"


>  man scanimage may be of help
ditto

I installed sane-utils and the commands worked. It identifies the scanner correctly.

I then get the same error as before on loading xsane.

using scanimage (not root) I get
"[snapscan] cannot open firmware
file /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin"
"[snapscan] Edit the firmware file in snapscan.conf
"scanimage: open of device snapscan:libusb:001.004 failed: Invalid
argument" (I used a different usb port)

How do I edit the .conf file?

Thanks very much. Bigger steps on the command line!
-- 
james kilty
http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk


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