[sane-devel] Redhat 9 mustek 1200 xsane invalid argument

Martin martinh at ix.netcom.com
Thu Mar 20 10:34:43 UTC 2008


I changed the file /etc/ld.so.conf , to look at "/usr/local/lib/sane"
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/local/lib/sane
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib

but the command $  xsane gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0
still errors out with >> "Failed to open device 
gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0:  Invalid argument."

m. allan noah wrote:
> i bet xsane is using the system copy, and scanimage is using the
> replacement. redhat does not put /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf. so
> either do that, or even better, reconfigure to overwrite the old copy,
> and reinstall.
>
> allan
>
> On 3/19/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Yes, I have,
>>  /usr/lib/sane/
>>  and
>>  /usr/local/lib/sane/  <this being the most recently installed Mar 17 2008>
>>
>>
>> On 3/19/08, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I tried , SANE_DEBUG_GT68XX=4 xsane 2> mt1200.log
>>  But it does not produce any output.
>>  Do I need to ./configure something with the debug switch enabled?
>>
>>  The version of xsane I have is - could this be a problem?
>>  --------------------------------------
>>  $ xsane --version
>>  xsane-0.89 (c) 1998-2002 Oliver Rauch
>>  Email: Oliver.Rauch at xsane.org
>>  package xsane-0.89
>>  compiled with GTK-2.2.0
>>  without GIMP support
>>  --------------------------------------
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Martin <martinh at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>  >>
>>  >> Hello,
>>  >> I can get my mustek 1200 scanner working using,
>>  >>
>>  >> As a normal user I can scan it:
>>  >> $ /usr/local/bin/scanimage
>> --device-name=gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0 --mode
>>  >> Color --resolution 600 > aaa.pnm
>>  >>
>>  >> I can open up the file in Gimp and save it as aaa.jpg file format:
>>  >> $ gimp aaa.pnm
>>  >>
>>  >> But...
>>  >> when trying to execute the xsane command,
>>  >>
>>  >> $ xsane gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0
>>  >> or
>>  >> $ xsane
>>  >>
>>  >> I get error message, >> Failed to open device gt68xx:/dev/usb/scanner0:
>>  >> Invalid argument.
>>  >>
>>  >> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
>>  >>
>>     



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