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Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)

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On 03/10/14 01:46, JohnF wrote:
> Having a bit of trouble correctly configuring scanning for
> Brother MFC-J6920DW connected wirelessly to a slackware 14.1 box.
> In particular, scanimage segfaults, though scanimage -L detects the
> device. I've done everything as correctly as I could figure out from
>    http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:brother_printer_installation
> and from the instructions at
>    http://support.brother.com/g/b/
> which are displayed while downloading the printer/scanner/fax stuff.
>    (By the way, those brother.com instructions display while downloading,
>     so for anybody who wants them, I cut-and-pasted them all at
>       http://www.forkosh.com/mfcinstallnotes.txt
>     which are specifically for the MFC-J6920DW, though lots of those
>     mfc printers are pretty similar.)
> Cups immediately added the printer, and printing works fine.
> And the scanner works "locally" when I plug in a (fat95-formatted)
> usb stick and walk it over to the pc after scanning images onto it,
> so I assume the hardware's okay.
>     And the sane stuff looks okay as far as I can tell, e.g.,
> brsaneconfig4 ran correctly, /etc/sane.d/dll.conf was correctly modified,
> etc. But scanimage segfaults. The scanner actually begins to scan,
> just barely, and then scanimage segfaults and the scanner resets itself.
> And a file containing 0 bytes is placed in ~/brscan/ .
> I messed around, but nothing had any effect on that behavior.
> Any suggestions how to proceed? Thanks,
>

Mmm. There's a gui scanner that uses very conservative defaults and 
tends to work better for me. SimpleScan is it?

I've seen stuff segfault on *certain* scan settings.


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(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-10-02 22:17 -0400
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0100
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0000
      Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 06:28 +0000
        Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-04 09:39 +0100
          Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 12:46 +0000
            Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
              Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 03:36 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:43 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 08:48 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-10-03 16:26 +0000
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-10-04 04:06 +0000

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