Gscan2pdf Sane Start Invalid Argument

Antergos wins here. Manjaro could have done better but it didn’t.

Anyone who would want to avoid having to go through the hassle of reinstalling and testing sane drivers under Arch Linux should look no further. The comparison wasn’t done between all the Arch Linux based distributions, but Antergos is the clear winner here.

No Desktop Environment under Manjaro worked to have this driver functioning as it should have been functioning. And this is after trying Manjaro KDE, Manjaro XFCE, the most popular of the bunch. Didn’t try it with GNOME and I wasn’t going to waste my time with it.

Perhaps later versions would fare better, but this time around it didn’t deliver what it was expected from this distribution. The main issue had to do with the invalid argument error message from programs such as gscan2pdf and also from xsane and in identifying and picking up the right device other than the infamous Noname integrated camera that it would only identify from the list.

After reinstalling both Manjaro KDE and the XFCE version the problem continued in identifying the correct device.

With Antergos it worked without a major issue and for that reason alone I recommend this distribution over Manjaro.