[sane-devel] Unable to run scanimage

stef svoltz@wanadoo.fr
Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:04:15 +0200


On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:21:59PM +0200, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem running scanimage. When I try it:
> 
> scanimage -d genesys
> 
> I get:
> 
> scanimage: open of device libgenesys failed: Invalid argument
> 
> I have fresh CVS installation with make clean and removal of all
> previously installed files. The libgenesys is present where it should
> be, that is in the lib/sane.
> 
> What should be wrong and how I can fix it?
> 
> Thanks for any hints,
> 
> Stefan
> 

	Hello,

	if you have no other scanner atached than a 'genesys' one,
do 'scanimage' without any argument. However, if you want to specify
the device, from memory it should be 'libusb:002:004', where numbers
vary. You can find it by executing 'scanimage -L'.

Regards,
	Stef