Hi folks, I had this problem in openSuSE 11.1, switched to ubuntu 10.04, same problem.
On my genius colorpage vivid4x I first tried scanning : hal:~/personal> sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x0458, product=0x201b [600DPI USB Scanner], chip=GT-6816) at libusb:007:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. hal:~/personal> scanimage -L device `gt68xx:libusb:007:002' is a Genius Colorpage Vivid4x flatbed scanner hal:~/personal> sane saned sane-find-scanner hal:~/personal> sane saned sane-find-scanner hal:~/personal> sudo apt-get install xsane [sudo] password for kanaan: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdirac-encoder0 libopenjpeg2 libfaad2 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: xsane-common Suggested packages: xsane-doc hylafax-client mgetty-fax gv gocr The following NEW packages will be installed: xsane xsane-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 43 not upgraded. Need to get 1,087kB of archives. After this operation, 4,174kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe xsane-common 0.996-2ubuntu3 [748kB] Get:2 http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe xsane 0.996-2ubuntu3 [339kB] Fetched 1,087kB in 10s (100kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package xsane-common. (Reading database ... 226990 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xsane-common (from .../xsane-common_0.996-2ubuntu3_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package xsane. Unpacking xsane (from .../xsane_0.996-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for python-support ... Setting up xsane-common (0.996-2ubuntu3) ... Setting up xsane (0.996-2ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for menu ... hal:~/personal> rehash hal:~/personal> xsane [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory Then I downloaded the file ccd548.fw and I do not get the [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd548.fw'): No such file or directory message anymore. However xsane still displays: Failed to open device `gt68xx:libusb:007:012`: Invalid argument I have had this scanner working with sane in the past, any clues as to what I am missing? thanks, Antonio
