On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Douglas Brebner wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
> "Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com> wrote:
>
> > SANE and xscanimage worked fine before but no longer work.
> > Unfortunately I did two things between the time that the scanner
> > worked and the time it quit. I upgraded from 1.6 to 1.6.1 and
> > installed Mozilla 1.4 (which caused a cascade of package rebuilding)
> [snip]
> > but scanimage fails with:
> >
> > [epson] Error opening the devicescanimage: open of device
> > epson:/dev/uk0 failed: Invalid argument
>
> I just had this happen when I upgraded the sane-backends package. It
> seems to be a problem in the package itself.
> Restoring an older version (1.0.9) made it work again here (with my usb
> scanner)
>
> HTH
> --
> Douglas
>

Thanks for the advice. That solved it but I had to go back to sane-backends
1.0.7 for a version that worked with my Epson SCSI scanner....




Peter Wallace