Scanning under FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

iqgrande at asu.edu iqgrande at asu.edu
Sun May 1 18:18:49 PDT 2005


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

I have read the chapter on scanning in the Handbook, as well as doing Google
searching and even posting to the sane-devel list. Does anyone else have any
insight that they can give with this problem? I can get sane-backends, with
libusb, to work with this scanner on my PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.3, so I
know the scanner and the software should work; I just think I have something
misconfigured, either with it or with something else. In case it is necessary,
my uname output is below and the full list of installed packages is beneath it.
Thank you for your help.

ast# uname -a
FreeBSD ast.home.iq 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 30 18:48:07 EDT
2005     root at ast.home.iq:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

ORBit2-2.12.2       High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language
Xaw3d-1.5_1         A 3-D Athena Widget set that looks like Motif
aalib-1.4.r5_1      An ascii art library
amspsfnt-1.0_3      AMSFonts PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1 format)
atk-1.9.1           A GNOME accessibility toolkit (ATK)
autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
autoconf-2.53_3     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
autoconf-2.59_2     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
automake-1.5_2,1    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (version 1.5)
bison-1.75_2        A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc
bitstream-vera-1.10_1 Bitstream Vera TrueType font collection
cmpsfont-1.0_4      Computer Modern PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1 format)
cups-1.1.23.0       The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to install comple
cups-base-1.1.23.0_4 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, & daemons
cups-lpr-1.1.23.0   The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility binaries (lp* comma
cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS prin
cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 General network file distribution system optimized for
CVS 
desktop-file-utils-0.10_2 A couple of command line utilities for working with
desktop
dri-6.2.1,2         OpenGL hardware acceleration drivers for the DRI
dvipsk-tetex-5.95a_1 Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
emacs-21.3_5        GNU editing macros
expat-1.95.8_1      XML 1.0 parser written in C
ezm3-1.2            Easier, more portable Modula-3 distribution for building CV
fam-2.6.9_6         A file alteration monitor
firefox-1.0.3,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
fontconfig-2.2.3,1  An XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
freetype2-2.1.9     A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
gconf2-2.10.0       A configuration database system for GNOME
gd-2.0.33_1,1       A graphics library for fast creation of images
gettext-0.14.1      GNU gettext package
ghostscript-gnu-7.07_12 GNU Postscript interpreter
gimp-2.2.6,1        A GNU Image Manipulation Program
gimp-print-4.2.7_1  GIMP Print Printer Driver
glib-1.2.10_11      Some useful routines of C programming (previous stable vers
glib-2.6.4          Some useful routines of C programming (current stable versi
gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
gnomehier-2.0_6     A utility port that creates the GNOME directory tree
gnomemimedata-2.4.2 A MIME and Application database for GNOME
gnomevfs2-2.10.1    GNOME Virtual File System
gnutls-1.0.24_1     GNU Transport Layer Security library
gsfonts-8.11_2      Fonts used by GNU Ghostscript (or X)
gtk-1.2.10_13       Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI (previous stable version)
gtk-2.6.7           Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI (current stable version)
gtk-engines2-2.6.3_3 Theme engine for the gtk+-2.0 toolkit
help2man-1.35.1     Automatically generating simple manual pages from program o
hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 A high-color icon theme shell from the FreeDesktop project
imake-6.8.2         Imake and other utilities from X.Org
intltool-0.33       Tools to internationalize various kinds of data files
jpeg-6b_3           IJG's jpeg compression utilities
ksh93-20050202      Official AT&T release of KornShell 93
lcms-1.14,1         Light Color Management System -- a color management library
libIDL-0.8.5_1      A library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition 
libXft-2.1.6_1      A client-sided font API for X applications
libart_lgpl2-2.3.17 Library for high-performance 2D graphics
libbonobo-2.8.1_1   A component and compound document system for GNOME2
libcroco-0.6.0_1    CSS2 parsing library
libexif-0.6.12_1    Library to read digital camera file meta-data
libgcrypt-1.2.1_1   "General purpose crypto library based on code used in GnuPG
libgpg-error-1.0_1  Common error values for all GnuPG components
libgphoto2-2.1.5_1  A universal digital camera picture control tool
libgsf-1.11.1       An extensible i/o abstraction for dealing with structured f
libiconv-1.9.2_1    A character set conversion library
libijs-0.35         C library that supports plugin printer driver for Ghostscri
libmikmod-3.1.11    MikMod Sound Library
libmng-1.0.8        Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) reference library
libogg-1.1.2_1,3    Ogg bitstream library
librsvg2-2.9.5_2    Library for parsing and rendering SVG vector-graphic files
libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
libtool-1.5.10_1    Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
libungif-4.1.3      Tools and library routines for working with GIF images
libusb-0.1.10a      Library giving userland programs access to USB devices
libvorbis-1.1.0_1,3 Audio compression codec library
libwmf-0.2.8.3      Tools and library for converting Microsoft WMF (windows met
libwww-5.4.0_1      The W3C Reference Library
libxml2-2.6.19      XML parser library for GNOME
linc-1.0.3_3        A library for writing networked servers & clients
links-2.1.p17,1     Lynx-like text WWW browser
lynx-2.8.5          A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client
m4-1.4.3            GNU m4
open-motif-2.2.3_1  Motif X11 Toolkit (industry standard GUI (IEEE 1295))
openldap-client-2.2.24 Open source LDAP client implementation
p5-XML-Parser-2.34_1 Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat
p5-gettext-1.03     Message handling functions
p5-type1inst-0.6.1_2 A script that helps install Postscript fonts in X Window Sy
pango-1.8.1         An open-source framework for the layout and rendering of i1
perl-5.8.6_2        Practical Extraction and Report Language
pkgconfig-0.17.2    A utility to retrieve information about installed libraries
png-1.2.8_1         Library for manipulating PNG images
popt-1.7            A getopt(3) like library with a number of enhancements, fro
portaudit-0.5.9     Checks installed ports against a list of security vulnerabi
portupgrade-20041226_2 FreeBSD ports/packages administration and management tool s
ruby-1.8.2_3        An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2   Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with full featu
samba-3.0.14a,1     A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
sane-backends-1.0.15 API for access to scanners, digitals camera, frame grabbers
sane-frontends-1.0.13_2 Tools for access to scanners, digitals camera, frame grabbe
shared-mime-info-0.16_1 A MIME type database from the FreeDesktop project
t1lib-5.0.1,1       A Type 1 Rasterizer Library for UNIX/X11
teTeX-3.0           A meta port for teTeX suite
teTeX-base-3.0_3    Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (binaries)
teTeX-texmf-3.0_3   Thomas Esser's distribution of TeX & friends (texmf tree)
tex-texmflocal-1.9  Meta-port that creates a site-local $TEXMF directory
texi2html-1.76_1,1  Texinfo to HTML converter
thunderbird-1.0.2_1 Mozilla Thunderbird is standalone mail and news that stands
tiff-3.7.2          Tools and library routines for working with TIFF images
unzip-5.52_1        List, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
windowmaker-0.91.0  GNUStep-compliant NeXTStep window manager clone
wmicons-1.0         Icons mainly for use in Window Maker
xdvik-tetex-22.84.8_1 DVI Previewer(kpathsearch) for X
xmms-1.2.10_4       X Multimedia System --- An audio player with a Winamp GUI
xorg-6.8.2          X.Org distribution metaport
xorg-clients-6.8.2  X client programs and related files from X.Org
xorg-documents-6.8.2 Documentation of X11 protocol and libraries from X.Org
xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.8.2 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-75dpi-6.8.2 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-6.8.2 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-encodings-6.8.2 X.Org font encoding files
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.8.2 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts
xorg-fonts-truetype-6.8.2 X.Org TrueType fonts
xorg-fonts-type1-6.8.2 X.Org Type1 fonts
xorg-fontserver-6.8.2 X font server from X.Org
xorg-libraries-6.8.2 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org
xorg-nestserver-6.8.2 Nesting X server from X.Org
xorg-printserver-6.8.2 X Print server from X.Org
xorg-server-6.8.2   X.Org X server and related programs
xorg-vfbserver-6.8.2 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org
xsane-0.96          Gtk-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)
xterm-201           Terminal emulator for the X Window System
zip-2.3_2           Create/update ZIP files compatible with pkzip



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