Hi Allan > I suspect the scanner may be going to sleep. Some older models had > problems > waking up. Questions: > > 1. what other model scanners have the problem?
For now I was only able to try fi-7160 and fi-7260. > 2. how long do you wait between scans when this happens? Only seconds. > 3. if you press a button on the scanner before you scan, does the problem > happen? Yes happens also. > 4. Have you tried another computer? Yes, but same model so same USB configuration. > > if you want, you could gather some logs and send them to me. > > SANE_DEBUG_FUJITSU=15 scanimage [your parameters here] 2>7160.log The log is from when the scanner is not seen anymore but still shown in lsusb. I'm afraid that's not what you wanted? Thanks, Simon > > allan > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM Simon Matter via sane-devel < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I try to use a Fujitsu fi-7160 scanner on AlmaLinux 10 (RHEL10 >> > compatible). >> >> Forgot to mention, SANE backends is version 1.2.1. >> >> > >> > The scanner works some times but then fails and scanimage reports >> > "scanimage: open of device fujitsu:fi-7260:1433 failed: Invalid >> argument". >> > >> > The scanimage command is always the same and it can work 5 times and >> fail >> > on the next. >> > >> > The problem happens when connected via USB2 port or USB3. Different >> other >> > Fujitsu fi-xxxx scanners behave exactly the same. >> > >> > When the scanner fails it is also not detected via "scanimage -L". >> > Powering off and on the scanner brings it back to life. >> > >> > Any help on this issue would be much appreciated. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Simon >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> > > -- > "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of > my hand" >
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