and such is the danger of using a closed source sane driver, we have no way of helping you debug the problem. ask brother, and ask them to open source it while you are at it... :)
allan On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: > Can anyone give me advice about what I can do to diagnose this problem? > (commands to run... debugging flags to turn on... log files to scour, > etc.). Does anybody have an idea what "Invalid argument" might possibly > mean? I'm dyin' here :) > > On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 19:51 -0400, Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote: > >> I have a Brother MFC 210C on Ubuntu Dapper which I installed >> using http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=105703 . >> Everything was working great (both printing and scanning >> using xsane) but somehow the scanning has stopped working. >> I tried uninstalling things and reinstalling, but nothing >> has changed. >> >> What happens is: xsane starts fine (which indicates that the >> scanner is recognized OK), but when I click on Scan, I get >> "Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument". Any ideas? >> > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
