On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:07, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: Hello Henning, > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:03:30PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote: > > Hello Folks, I have been happily using xsane to do my scanning for quite > > a while. Now, for some inexplicable reason, when I start xsane it comes > > up with 'no devices available' If I enter the command scanimage -d > > epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' I get the error message 'scanner busy'. If I > > run 'sane-find-scanner' it tell me that it found the following:- > > "Device busy"? That usually means that another application or driver > is using the scanner. Maybe some KDE stuff is locking the scanner in > the background? > > To find out which application is blocking your scanner try that: > > fuser -v /dev/usb/scanner0
The command '/sbin/fuser -v /dev/usb/scanner0' produces no output. > > Does "scanimage -L" show your scanner? No, the output follows:- [graeme@barney graeme]$ 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). > > > - The contents of this email and any attachments, which may be con- - > > - fidential, are sent for the personal attention of the addressee/s - > > - only. If you receive this email and are not the intended addressee - > > - please inform the sender and delete this email immediately. Use, - > > - copying, disclosure or forwarding of the contents of this email - > > - and/or any attachment/s is not authourised. - > > Such footers are rather stupid anyway but when sent to public mailing > list they are just ridiculous. I know, it's done automatically by the > mail gateway, but still... > > Bye, > Henning My apologies Henning, wont happen again. Thank you for your response. My answers to your questions are above. The funny thing is I thought it may be locked by some other app. but the KDE scanning app., Kooka, runs OK. and it also uses sane. Can you think of anything else I can try? -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols Public Key available from http://keyserver.kjsl.com:11371/#extract ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------
