I was unable to get my VuegoScan Brisa 620u scanner working in Ubuntu Jaunty. There was an error similar to the following:<\/p>\n
Interestingly, if I dual booted into Windows with the scanner on and then booted into Ubuntu the scanner worked. Apparently, a firmware blob is loaded into the scanner.<\/p>\n Fortunately I still had a 1999 CD for the scanner with all the drivers on it. So it was a matter of changing a line in snapscan.conf and putting a binary file into a particular path.<\/p>\n Here are the details:<\/p>\n 1) Open nautilus with root powers (NB very dangerous – think before you act!). Apologies to my CLI-loving friends ;-).<\/p>\n 2) navigate to \/etc\/sane.d\/snapscan.conf<\/p>\n 3) Double click snapscan.conf and edit 5th line:<\/p>\n 4) navigate to \/usr\/share\/sane\/ and make sure there is a folder called snapscan<\/p>\n 5) Copy U96V120.BIN from the \/media\/cdrom\/DRIVERS folder into \/usr\/share\/sane\/snapscan<\/p>\n 6) Close nautilus (remember, it is opened with root powers and could be dangerous to your system’s well being).<\/p>\n 7) Open Xsane (Applications > Graphics > Xsane Image scanning program) and start scanning<\/p>\n NB I was lucky that I guessed the correct BIN file on my first attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was unable to get my VuegoScan Brisa 620u scanner working in Ubuntu Jaunty. There was an error similar to the following: Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:006:003′: Invalid argument. Interestingly, if I dual booted into Windows with the scanner on … Continue reading Failed to open device `snapscan:libusb:006:003': Invalid argument.<\/code><\/p>\ngksu nautilus<\/code><\/p>\nfirmware \/usr\/share\/sane\/snapscan\/U96V120.BIN<\/code><\/p>\n