# Re: probs with AGFA Snapscan 600

Gordon Scott (gordon@apis.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 4 May 1999 18:25:03 +0100 (BST)

- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
- Next message: Mitchell Urquhart Open Systems Engineer: "Please remind me how to unsubscribe"
- Previous message: Yuri Dario: "Re: Acer Prisa 620S now working with SANE-1.01"

On Sun, 2 May 1999, ekaiser wrote:

> I've installed linux some weeks agon and now tried to use my scanner.
> I'm using sane 0.73 and when I enter "xerox" it says:
> scanimage: open of device snapscan:/dev/scanner failed: Invalid argument

I'm no expert at this, but I think that's where the failure occured....

> pgmtopbm: EOF / read error reading magic number
> pbmtolj: EOF / read error reading magic number
> lpr: stdin: empty input file

I think all those are just because there's no (valid?) data.

<snip>

> scanimage -d $DEV \
> -x $SCANWIDTH\" -y $SCANHEIGHT\" -l $LMARGIN\" -t $TMARGIN\" \
> --resolution $RES $DEVOPTS | eval $POST

So I'd try running the above, inserting the options gradually until you
find out which one breaks it, and/or try running the xerox script with
debugging on to verify that the arguments sensible. You could dump the
output to file whilst doing this and see what the file command makes of
it.

I'm curious that the same error is apparently absent from the 1.01
version as the rest of the failure looks very similar.

Regards,
Gordon.

    --
    Gordon Scott   gordon@apis.demon.co.uk      gordon@multitone.co.uk (work)
    <A HREF="http://www.apis.demon.co.uk">Gordon's Apis Home Page</A>
    Beekeeper; Kendo 3rd Dan, retd :-(; Sometime sailor.  Hampshire, England.
    	    Linux -- Because I like to *get* there today.

    --
    Source code, list archive, and docs: http://www.mostang.com/sane/
    To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail majordomo@mostang.com

     Next message: Mitchell Urquhart Open Systems Engineer: "Please remind me how to unsubscribe"
     Previous message: Yuri Dario: "Re: Acer Prisa 620S now working with SANE-1.01"