From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 6 03:58:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD351065670 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:58:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA8F8FC08 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:58:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA63woiM065729; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:58:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id oA63woqo065726; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:58:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:58:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Jason Naughton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:58:50 -0600 (MDT) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sane-backend 1.0.21 broke on 8.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:58:51 -0000 On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Jason Naughton wrote: > It seems though that scanimage cannot determine the scanner as it has to > be specified by the -d epson as if I issue: > > $ scanimage --format=tiff > foo2.tiff > scanimage: no SANE devices found > > which is also the same result from > > $ 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). > > Not sure why scanimage -L can't find it but sane-find-scanner does.. This > is the same results for root or user. I would rather work with xsane as I > need to increase the resolution of the scan but that fails to find the > scanner and thus doesn't work at all. The Handbook says "No output or a message saying that no scanners were identified indicates that scanimage(1) is unable to identify the scanner. If this happens, you will need to edit the backend configuration file and define the scanner device used." http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html#AEN9379