usb agfa snapscan stoped working
 

Hello
I have had my USB agfa snapscan running for a while now on my RH 8 set up .
But now it just doesnt work any more with any apps be it gimp or xsane etc
I reeinstalled xsane but to no avail .
the message I get is
failed to open device 'snapscan/dev/usb/scanner0'
Invalid argument.

I had a look at the
file:/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf

which i am posting here .
funnily enough if i chose scanner1 or 2 i get the same message so maybe this is the wrong config file to modify .

In the SANE doc it says to edit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf..
but this file is not there nor anywhere on the system

I cant understand why it just stopped working..
its a real pain.

I plugged the scanner in a XP box and it worked ok .

Allso in k control center USB devices its declared in there agfa snap scan
so if any body has an idea

mean while here is my /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf file

notice i uncommented out the
Agfa 1212U
usb 0x06bd 0x0001
usb 0x06bd 0x2061

lines

should I uncomment them all out



#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
/dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-------------------------- SCSI scanners ----------------------------------
# These SCSI devices will be probed automatically
scsi AGFA * Scanner
scsi COLOR * Scanner
scsi Color * Scanner
scsi ACERPERI * Scanner

#--------------------------- USB scanners -----------------------------------
# These USB devices will be probed automatically
# (This will currently work only on Linux)

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 320U
usb 0x04a5 0x2022
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 620U / 620UT
usb 0x04a5 0x1a2a
usb 0x04a5 0x2040
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640U
usb 0x04a5 0x2060
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BU
usb 0x04a5 0x207e
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 1240U
usb 0x04a5 0x20c0
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 3300 / 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20b0
# Benq/Acer/Vuego 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20de
# Agfa 1236U
usb 0x06bd 0x0002
Agfa 1212U
usb 0x06bd 0x0001
usb 0x06bd 0x2061
# Agfa Snapscan e20
usb 0x06bd 0x2091
# Agfa Snapscan e25
usb 0x06bd 0x2095
# Agfa Snapscan e26
usb 0x06bd 0x2097
# Agfa Snapscan e40
usb 0x06bd 0x208d
# Agfa Snapscan e42
usb 0x06bd 0x20ff
# Agfa Snapscan e50
usb 0x06bd 0x208f
# Agfa Snapscan e52
usb 0x06bd 0x20fd


Thanks phil

Hi Phil,
I have exactly the same problem. The scanner worked fine for one day but the next nothing. I sure hope someone comes along soon to help with this.

hi there
 

Nope not fixed
yet

What version of Linux are you using ?

Phil

I'm using Mdk 9.2. I've tried just about everything.I'm about ready to buy a new scanner but I do like the e26 on the other machine(windowsXP) What version do you have?
Del

hi
 

Im Using RH 8
its a real pig
have to customise everything and I regularily destroy it
but its still more stable then
windows.
I gave up with the scanner
i plugged it into my windows PC just for graphic work

You mean mandrak linuk

that seems to run nice .

My solution
 

Hey Phil

I ran into similar problems setting up my g/f's Agfa E20 under mdk 9.2 over the weekend. Looking at your original post I think you need to include a 'firmware' entry up near the top of your snapscan.conf file - it should reference a full path to the scanner driver which you'll need to get from your scanners resource CD.

There are a couple of other wrinkles that might catch you out but I cover them in this post elsewhere on the forums:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...569#post761569

Hope this helps

Regards
Luke