I have a Brother MFC-7420, which also works as a scanner. I have attached this machine to a computer running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit via USB.
I installed the following package:
brscan2-0.2.4-0.i386.deb
Now when I start xsane
, the device is detected. However, when I try to scan or run a preview scan, I get the message Could not start scanner: Invalid Argument
. The same problem exists if I run xsane
as root, so I don't think it's a privilege problem.
There's no output on the console while running xsane
(see screenshot below). The dialog box showing the error appeared just after pressing the "scan" button in xsane
.
What can I do to get this scanner running?
xsane
appears to be invokingsane
with bad syntax. To be sure, can you post a screenshot showing the error? If that is what's happening, it should be reported as a bug, probably inxsane
. (This question also has some good information about bug reporting.) In addition to a screenshot, please runxsane
in a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and give all the text in the Terminal; please also specify what messages appeared when. Please edit your question to provide all this info.