Scanner no longer works with my AMD PC

[Nils Kassube]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> On Mi, 2016-08-24 at 20:59 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> > Conclusion:- this isn't the fault of the Mint developers because
> > Ubuntu
> > has the same bug.
> 
> erm ... your inital bug was that you could not scan on mint *natively*
> installed on a machine but could scan from your ubuntu server also
> *natively* installed on hardware. now you see an error inside a VM
> install, this is definitely not comparable.

I would agree that it would be better to run from a live DVD, but the 
problem seems to be more sane related. Please note that I wrote "sane 
related" because I can't believe that it is AMD related. After all I 
mentioned my scanner problems in this thread already [1] and meanwhile I 
also filed a bug [2]. To me the error message "Error during device I/O." 
looks too much like the problems I have with my own scanner with 16.04. 
With 14.04 the scanner works and Davids scanner also works on his 14.04 
server.

Now, as it seems to be the same problem I had with my scanner, I would 
suggest to install the sane packages from 14.04 instead of the 16.04 
version on the Mint machine to see if that makes a difference.


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>
[2] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565975>