Ubuntu
xsane package

  1. Bug #478761
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 478761

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Davias (davias) wrote :

Dear Doug,
sorry for the delay, I finally had time to give a try to your solution: IT WORKS! (where nothing else did...)

This is what I did:
1) started Windows 2000 in VirtualBox 3.1.6 on my Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64
2) on the Devices menu of VirtualBox I selected "unknown USB device 05D8:4022" - this is the address where my Mustek scanner lives on.
3) started DirectScan, the Mustek scan program on Win2K
4) the Win2K device disconnect window appeared, informing that it was now safe to unplug USB device Mustek ScanPlus 1200
5) at THE SAME TIME the XSane dialog box appeared offering which device to use for scanning, my webcam or Mustek ScanPlus 1200 - this is common as I have 2 scanning device, at least for sane.
6) selected the Mustek ScanPlus 1200 and instead of getting "open of device gt68xx:libusb:001:009 failed: Invalid argument"
I had xsane up and running!

So definitely using the Windows driver took the scanner away from this strange lock mode it was fallen!

Thanks again for your solution,
Dave