Re: scanimage won't recognize my Agfa snapscan 600

Kevin Charter (charter@cs.rice.edu)
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:55:31 -0500

Richard Kuhlbars wrote:
>
> xscanimage and scanimage cannot find my scanner!
>
> I'm running an Agfa Snapscan 600 on an Adaptec 1505 SCSI.
>
> here's the puzzle:
>
> - find-scanner returns
>
> find-scanner: found scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 600 1.20" at device
> /dev/scanner
> find-scanner: found scanner "AGFA SNAPSCAN 600 1.20" at device /dev/sg0
>
> - the devices are readable
>
> ll /dev/scanner /dev/sg0
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 10 19:51 /dev/scanner ->
> /dev/sg0
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 21, 0 Dec 11 18:21 /dev/sg0
>
> - the configuration file /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf contains
>
> > cat /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
> /dev/scanner
>
> - 'scanimage -d snapscan:/dev/scanner' returns
>
> scanimage: open of device snapscan:/dev/scanner failed: Invalid argument
>
> Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> richard
>

You need an updated version of the backend. There is a patch at
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~charter/snapscan.html

Get that and apply it, or else grab the most recent version of SANE.
It's fixed there.

Kevin

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