Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 23:49:17 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: iqgrande@asu.edu Subject: Re: Scanning under FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20050502214917.GA44398@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <1114996721.42757ff1e12a4@webmail.asu.edu> References: <1114996721.42757ff1e12a4@webmail.asu.edu>
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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:18:41PM -0700, iqgrande@asu.edu wrote: > Hello everyone, >=20 > I posted an email sometime back asking for help getting my scanner to > work under FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. Upon not receiving any responses, I > did some more research and tinkering and decided to update to FreeBSD > 5.4-STABLE to see if that would fix the problem and it has not. In any > event, when I try to scan something as root, I receive the following > error: >=20 > ast# sane-find-scanner -q > found USB scanner (vendor=3D0x03f0, product=3D0x0205) at /dev/uscanner0 > ast# scanimage -L > device `niash:/dev/uscanner0' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300C flatbed = scanner > ast# scanimage > image.pnm > scanimage: open of device niash:/dev/uscanner0 failed: Device busy Try building sane-backends without libusb support. My epson scanner works fine without libusb, and it's one less dependancy. If you try this, you should change /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf to something like: usb /dev/uscanner0 According to the sane-hp(5) manual page, you could also try the "dumb-read" option. If you want to use your scanner as a normal user, there are some tips on my freebsd page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ HTH, Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCdqBdEnfvsMMhpyURAtBqAJ90kPqqd4A/MGCuPdPp/DAyEqZ97ACfWx5j fv8QdvniKykGnHgNzFtneco= =A5Ko -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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