UMAX found but xscanimage not working right.

A. R. M. (amojahed@julian.uwo.ca)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:57:15 -0400

I've got sane installed on a Linux box and everything seems to work
correctly.
My scsi card and the scanner (UMAX Vista S12) get recognized correctly as
reported by
/proc/scsi/scsi and /var/adm/syslog.
In my umax.conf file I've added the required lines as well as a symbolic
link in /dev/ pointing to sg0 which is only accessible by the scanner group
(and I've put myself in that group).

The problem is though, that when I run xscanimage, I only get to choose
between pnm:0 and pnm:1 for a device name.
Xscanimage's man page describes only vaguely how it should be used. It
descibes the options but while it says the you can specify a devicename, it
doesn't not say what form this devicname should take.
So, I've been invoking it by just typing:
% xscanimage
It gives me a dialog box to choose between pnm:0 and pnm:1 then it opens the
xscanimage window.
Near the bottom of the window I have:
Invalid parameters
and if I click on the scan button I get an error message:
Failed to start scanner: Invalid argument

Any ideas/help is appreciated. Thanks.

P.S.: I tried running it as a gimp plug-in with the same results.
P.P.S: I got the following directories/files when I ran xscanimage:
~/.sane/
~/.sane/xscanimage/
~/.sane/xscanimage/pnm.rc
~/.sane/xscanimage/pnm:0.rc
~/.sane/xscanimage/xscanimage.rc

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