Re: [tlug] Scanner is driving me nuts

[Sylvain Vedrenne <sylvain.vedrenne@example.com>]

>I swapped the drive and re-installed Ubuntu 10.04, but the
>scanner is a no-go.

>I remembered having problems with the scanner that I asked
>the group about the first time I set it up and see that installing
>the SANE dependencies cleared that up. Not this time. I can't
>run the scanner from any app. Get a message that says "Failed
>to open device 'brother3:bus8;dev2': Invalid argument." As
>before, the printer works fine.

>Any ideas what I could try?

Hello,

Maybe you could run commands "lsusb" and "groups" and share their output with us?

What do you have in this directory /usr/lib/sane/ ?
Did you try to use the scanner as root (just for a test)?

Good luck!

Sylvain