rogerh Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Warning : Newbie Working to finally get my Epson cs6600 scanner functional - it is a multifunction that is supposed to be Linux supported (why I got it). I am on Mandrake 10.0, and the printer works fine. Loaded the 6600 drivers, and validated functionality via console (user level) comands: sane-find-scanner (fine), and scanimage (fine). Still could not initiate a scan via xsane or kooda. Tried scanimage -T on the console and got sane_start: Invalid Argument Any ideas on action to take or diagnostic to use. I think I am sooooooo close, but something is in the way....... Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 (edited) Normally the installation of sane should have created a usergroup named "scanner". Please add your default user to that group... (e.g. via userdrake). Then, log out and back in, so that the change is in effect. Edited December 18, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted December 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hello, and thanks for the tip. I did check and default user did have scanner group access. I also gave default user root group, with the same result - invalid argument. I did also see that there was a known problem on epson multis, and edited the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file to comment out net (net -> #net). Any additional suggestions or diagnostic requests greatly appreciated.... Regards -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted December 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hello, One other interesting point.. When I ran image-file-permissions I got the scanner at usb:001:002 and in the hardware configuration tool in the control center it thinks the scanner is at usb:001:003. Not sure if this is an artifact of it being a multifuntion printer/scanner, or if this is actually an issue. If it is an issue, suggestions for a fix would be appreciated. Do I need to delete and reinstall my printer/scanner at this point, now that all of the drivers are supposedly correct?? Thanks -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerh Posted December 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2005 Hello, Newbie looking to upgrade the sane on my Mandrake 10.0 official. Having endless trouble getting at my Epson CX6600 scanner, and think that maybe (hopefully) a newer sane backend version would help...... Is the latest sane backend compatible with Mandrake 10.0? Hate to download it and have it detonate my poor system.... thanks for any input -- Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted December 20, 2005 Report Share Posted December 20, 2005 Roger - I've merged your new thread into this one, so members can see the background to the problem :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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