After a while trying to get a pretty nice genius scanner, I had give up, and I had bought one of the scanners that are supported on the sane project A Genius ColorPage-Vivid 1200XE.
So I had plugin in and then an error saying » Fail to open the device Not valid argument«.
I was a bit lost, but then I tried to open the xsane program from the command line: [gt68xx] Couldn't open firmware file (`/usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ccd569.fw'):
where the hell is that file? Searching did not help much. It must be a ccd569.fw somewhere otherwise what is the point in having a reference to a non-existen file? So I try to use the windows driver from the cd ( you can download from genius) wine 1200xe.exe
extracts other files, but not ccd569.fw,
so I try to execute: wine Setup.exe
damn it fails! so what about extract the cab files? cabextract data1.cab
oh oh, it has been created for the InstallShield installer. So I had to download unshield plus configure and make. But finally unshield data1.cab
works for me, I was able to find under DRV_USB_GT6816 the CCD569.fw file. Copy to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx to make your system happy