Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:34:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Jason Naughton <jason@naughton.ca> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sane-backend 1.0.21 broke on 8.0? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011061732070.69486@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <b5fb976e618d7fed0dcaffd6c093f06f.squirrel@webmail.jnaughton.com> References: <e0022830d18350e47436fdb8145cef8e.squirrel@webmail.jnaughton.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011052156510.65706@wonkity.com> <b5fb976e618d7fed0dcaffd6c093f06f.squirrel@webmail.jnaughton.com>
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Jason Naughton wrote: > I went to the handbook first before sending this email and before madly > surfing the web. If you look at my epson.conf file: > > # grep -v "^#" /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf > usb 0x04b8 0x011e > usb /dev/uscanner0 > > The second line is pointless as with Freebsd 8.X there is no /dev/uscanner > of any kind. The first line indicates that there's a usb scanner of > product id: 0x04b8 and Vendor id: 0x011e as indicated in the file in > question. > ... > That is why when I issue the command: > > # scanimage -d epson --format=tiff > foo.tiff > > it actually works. Yet it's in low resolution and so forth. Yet if > I issue the command: > > # scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > > Which is quite annoying. Okay, the other thing to check is permissions to the USB devices. From devfs.rules: add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group operator add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator With that, and the USB IDs in epson.conf, my Epson 1640SU works fine with a normal user: % scanimage -L device `epson2:libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen2.3' is a Epson Perfection1640 flatbed scanner
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