On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:18:41PM -0700, iqgrande_(_at_)_asu_(_dot_)_edu wrote: > Hello everyone, > > 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: > > ast# sane-find-scanner -q > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0205) 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 -- 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
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