Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:53:47 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1012733628.576894@mired.org> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uscanner Acerscan 620U not detected while present (Frustrating! plz help!) Message-ID: <15446.32571.675237.966143@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <127991438@toto.iv>
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rene@xs4all.nl types:
> I am soooooo fed up with this little problem I'm having of not having my
> FreeBSD detect my Acerscan 620U scanner... PLEASE gimme some detailed help
> here.
>
> What I want to know most is if my USB circuit is functioning properly, as the
> motherboard is an Asus P5A, which is kinda old. Another Asus board I have
> from
> the same period has fatal problems with USB...
>
> I am eagerly awaiting help...
>
> diagnostics I could think of, all ran under root privs:
>
> $ dmesg | grep usb
> usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
> usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
Where's the part of dmesg that shows the scanner being found? It
should either be uscanner or ugen. That's the critical part of dmesg
for this question.
> $ ls -al /dev/usc*
> crw-rw---- 1 root operator 156, 0 Jan 3 19:34 /dev/uscanner0
>
> $ grep 620U /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c
> { USB_VENDOR_ACERP, USB_PRODUCT_ACERP_ACERSCAN_620U },
>
> { (/usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends/work/sane-backends-1.0.6 ) }-
> $ tools/sane-find-scanner -v
> # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
> # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
> # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
> # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.
>
> sane-find-scanner: searching for SCSI scanners:
> <omitted for irrelevancy>
> sane-find-scanner: searching for USB scanners:
> sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/uscanner... failed to open (status 4)
Do you have permission to open the scanner device? I.e. - are you in
the operator group? If not, that may well be the problem.
<mike
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