Comment 4 for bug 578620

Why hasn't anyone come up with the solution for this yet?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM, robbychen <email address hidden>wrote:

> I also wrote a post about it: http://blog.robbychen.com/2010/03/25
> /brother-scanner-driver-installation-in-ubuntu/. However, the solution
> in the post only works on Ubuntu 9.10. I tried similar steps on Ubuntu
> 10.04 with no success. It still shows "Invalid argument" error when I
> run it in the non-root environment. The warning message displayed each
> time I run xsane in the root account is a good explanation why we
> shouldn't run xsane as root. Hope this bug will fix soon.
>
> --
> Failed to open device `brother3:bus1;dev1': Invalid argument
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578620
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> Status in “xsane” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xsane
>
> When I try to run xsane as a regular use, a dialog pops up with "Failed to
> open device `brother3:bus1;dev1': Invalid argument" in it and the only
> option is to close it.
>
> If I run xsane as root (i.e. sudo xsane) everything works properly.
>
> Of course, having to run xsane as root is just a dangerous hack and should
> not be necessary.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: xsane 0.996-2ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon May 10 23:14:16 2010
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_CA.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: xsane
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