Getting the sponsors team involved. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706877#c5 has the gist of the problem. Apparently commit 37b45c4f76a66f9cd2c3d4bd98dd371dfbda74e5 introduced this problem upstream and it was fixed in commit 33bb529c5f8ca013fb499addc14c7fb229203ea8. The patch in this ticket reverse-applies to the source in quantal and raring. Thus, closing the ticket as fixed and nominating for backporting to precise.
Kumaran, thank you for reporting this problem and including the patch. Please always be sure to let us know what series of Ubuntu and what version of the package you are running. Thank you. ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Description changed: - The Avision backend has a bug which prevents scanners from being opened. + The Avision backend has a bug which prevents scanners from being opened + in precise. 1) Attach an Avision scanner 2) Type: scanimage --help -d avision Open fails with an "Invalid argument" error message. The problem is described in detail in this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706877 A patch to fix the bug is attached. It would be much appreciated if this could be incorporated into an update of the package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132015 Title: Avision backend does not work in 12.04 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1132015/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs