EPSON 1240 Scanner problems on 8.0

[David Jackson]

David Jackson wrote:
> I have an Epson Perfection 1240:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010b 
> [Perfection1240]) at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2
>
> It is detected:
>
> ls -l /dev/ugen0.2
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9 Mar 16 11:37 /dev/ugen0.2 -> usb/0.2.0
>
> ls -l /dev/usb
> crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 134 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.0
> crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 136 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.1
> crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 137 Mar 16 11:37 0.2.2
>
> However i have been having problems getting SANE frontend to detect it:
>
> scanimage -v -v -L
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epson2 to 255.
> [epson2] sane_epson2_init: sane-backends 1.0.20
> [epson2] sane_epson2_init: reading config file, epson2.conf
> [epson2]  usb /dev/ugen0.2
> [epson2] attach_one_usb: dev = /dev/ugen0.2
> [epson2] epson2 backend, version 1.0.117
> [epson2] attach: devname = /dev/ugen0.2, type = 3
> [epson2] attach: opening /dev/ugen0.2, type = 3
> [epson2] close_scanner: fd = -1
> [epson2] sane_epson2_get_devices
>
> 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).
> Calling sane_exit
> scanimage: finished
>
> I tried both epson and epson2 drivers by commenting them out in dll.conf.
>
>
> I am at a loss to know why this is not working. It worked well in 
> FreeBSD 7.1
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
>
Setting this in the configuration seems to have helped:
usb 0x04b8 0x010b

It seems to now be able to find the scanner.

Autodetection for the scanner is not working anymore, although it was 
working in FreeBSD 7.1.