[sane-devel] Error message with scanimage -L

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning at meier-geinitz.de
Mon Aug 29 15:31:38 UTC 2005


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:56:52PM +0200, Serge Leblanc wrote:
> Hi, I'm getting this error with scanimage  scanimage
> --device-name=v4l:/dev/video0 :
> 
> serge at serge2:~/$ scanimage --device-name=v4l:/dev/video0
> scanimage: setting of option --br-x failed (Invalid argument)
> 
> Thank you for any help.

scanimage wants to set the option "br-x" (bottom right x) which is set
inactive by the v4l backend.

A work-around has been introduced into scanimage meanwhile, but you
must use the development version of sane-backends.

Or use a different frontend.

Bye,
  Henning



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