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Linda (elindarie) wrote : Re: [Bug 1380419] Re: scanner recognized but says sane_start: Invalid argument

Hi Christopher,

I don't remember what this was about - probably at first my Brother printer
did not work with Ubuntu. But a year ago or so, Brother updated their
scanner drivers, and that fixed it.

Best,

Linda

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Christopher M. Penalver <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Linda, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
>
> To see if this is already resolved, could you please test
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?
>
> ** Changed in: sane-frontends (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: sane-frontends (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380419
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> Title:
> scanner recognized but says sane_start: Invalid argument
>
> Status in sane-frontends package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I'm not really sure which package this problem is in. This report
> is from "ubuntu-bug sane".
>
> I tried "ubuntu-bug libsane" but it went to sane-backends.
>
> linda@gazelle:~$ scanimage -L
>
> device `brother4:bus2;dev1' is a Brother DCP-8155DN USB scanner
>
> linda@gazelle:~$ scanimage -T
>
> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
>
> I originally reported the bug here (comments of elindarie):
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312594
>
> and here
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380414
>
> where I also uploaded some gscan2pdf log and config files. Gscan2pdf
> also gives "invalid argument".
>
> I installed the Brother drivers. The scanner is working with an older
> Debian laptop (32-bit) but not a newer Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) laptop.
>
> Added the following line to /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules:
>
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0293",
> ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
>
> If someone could tell me what more debugging to do - where to put
> print statements into a driver and recompile it into a development
> location for testing, I would gladly compare its output to that from
> the working Debian laptop.
>
> Thank you.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: sane 1.0.14-9
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Sun Oct 12 15:47:40 2014
> SourcePackage: sane-frontends
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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