Lexmark X73 AIO Scanner Does Not Work With XSane

[Aaron]

Binary package hint: xsane

The package I am using is called XSane.

1) Ubuntu Description: 8.04.1 Release: 8.04

2) XSane is version 0.995-1ubuntu1

3) In GIMP 2.4.5 I tried to scan an image from File>Acquire>XSane>gt68xx.libusb:001:004.

4) An error message appeared stating "Failed to open device 'gt68xx.libusb:001:004': Invalid argument."

My username is part of the Scanner group and the sane-utils package is installed.
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In Terminal:

$ uname -r
2.6.24-19-generic

$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8086:1120 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 043d:0014 Lexmark International, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 043d:002d Lexmark International, Inc. X70/X73 Scan/Print/Copy
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:009d Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 043d:0029 Lexmark International, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

$ sane-find-scanner
# A whole lot of writing...
found USB scanner (vendor=0x043d, product=0x002d) at libusb:001:004
# More writing...

$ scanimage -L
device 'gt68xx:libusb:001:004' is a Lexmark X73 flatbed scanner
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No matter how many times I try to scan the same error message appears.

UNSUPPORTED: I ran "sudo xsane" from Terminal, bypassing the warning, and received this error message: "Couldn't open firmware file ('/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/OSLO3071b2.usb'): No such file or directory". It's true, the directory is totally empty. I don't know if this means anything, but thought to add it anyway.

[James Moger (jcm21)]

I have this same problem in 9.10 with both a CanoScan LIDE 70 (not supported) and a Nikon LS-50 (supported).
Its not the GIMP plugin as this can be replicated with the scanimage command line tool.

Not sure if its related or not... but I also have a USB webcam (MS LifeCam Cinema) which seems to be recognized by SANE (as v4l). I doubt that it should be recognized by SANE, but maybe there are other SANE uses? I'll try disconnecting the webcam, retrying the LS-50 (since LIDE 70 is unsupported), and will report back findings.

[James Moger (jcm21)]

I think this issue is the same as bug #478761.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Marked as duplicate, thank you James for this information!

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Aaron, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.