well, it's not very conclusive- perhaps one of the genesys backend authors will comment. In the mean time, you might try to upgrade to the most recent sane-backends release, just to see if there are any fixes...
allan On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:26 AM, <sjnz at freenet.co.nz> wrote: > We got 4 sounds this time. Yes there is a carriage lock on the bottom but > it is unlocked. I toggled the switch before testing just to be sure. > > Once again, I sure appreciate your time and expertise. > > Cheers, > > PS the log file is an attachment sent separately. > > On Tue, October 27, 2009 1:30 am, m. allan noah wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:45 AM, ?<sjnz at freenet.co.nz> wrote: >> >>> Well it sounded like the scanner started; it made two short scanning >>> sounds, then this message: >>> >>> h# scanimage > test.pnm scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument >>> >>> >> >> >> well, that is something better- does this thing have a physical carriage >> lock on the bottom? might need to unlock it. If not- try getting the >> genesys log while scanning: >> >> SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 scanimage > test.pnm 2>test.log >> >> >> and lets look at test.log >> >> allan -- >> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" >> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
