Hi, > I have a major issue with my Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner. > It used to run in FreeBSD. I haven't used it in a few weeks during > which upgrades occured and I noticed this week it stopped working. > Portupgrade of sane had replaced the snapscan.conf file, I put back > there my correct firmware file with full pathname but it still > doesn't work. > > Since I track 5.4/5-STABLE, I first reverted to 5.4-RELEASE. When > the scanner worked, it used to be initialised at boot time (makes > the double noise) but even after the downgrade it wasn't. I also > downgraded Xsane to 0.98 but it didn't help either. I don't have > any older tar of sane-backends in distfiles and didn't delete those > for a long time, so I haven't tried downgrading backends. I don't > understand. Usual errors are either "No device available" or : > > Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:/dev/usb1:/dev/ugen0': Error > during device I/O.
The debug log may provide more hints on what's going wrong. Can you try to set the environment variable SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255, reproduce the error and post the debug log? /Oliver
