Well in general I'd say this is related to the locking feature, but as you're using sane-backends-1.0.15 (did you?) Then this feature is not available.
No more ideas on that - sorry Gerhard On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:25, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > /dev/usbscanner might be fine, but useless here, when using the libusb, > the backend tries to access the device via procfs. > Is the usbfs mounted? > Make sure to have somethink like > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 > somewhere in /etc/fstab > > Then you should also check the procfs entries, i.e: > sane-find-scanner reports something like: > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220d [CanoScan], > chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:002 > > Then > cat /proc/bus/usb/devices should contain (amongst other stuff): > T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 > D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 > P: Vendor=04a9 ProdID=220d Rev= 1.00 > S: Manufacturer=Canon > S: Product=CanoScan > C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=500mA > I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=(none) > E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms > E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms > E: Ad=03(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms > > Also /proc/bus/usb/003/002 should exist. > If that is true, at least it should be possible to let scanimage -L > work as root. > > HTH > Gerhard > > usbfs is mounted, procfs is mounted. I already did "cat /proc/bus/usb/device" > it > looks just like that. a tad different, but yeah, I don't understand why it > isn't > working. I'll give you proof of this on tuesday. > > Josh > P.S. I haven't tried kicking it, perhaps I should tonight. >
