[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 on FreeBSD

[JJ Behrens]

Henning,

Thank you very much for your email. It helped me to resolve the problem:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:04:31PM -0800, JJ Behrens wrote:
> > I'm not able to get scanimage to scan an image on my Epson Perfection 1650
> > under FreeBSD. I get the following error message:
> [...]
> 
> > Jan 24 15:41:04 tcp /kernel: uscanner0: EPSON EPSON Scanner, rev
> > 1.00/1.08, addr 2
> 
> Looks fine. Is there a device /dev/uscanner0 (or whatever you call it)
> with the correct major and minor device numbers? Is this file listed
> in epson.conf?

The device exists, but was not listed in epson.conf. I figured I could
just override anything in epson.conf by using -d "epson:/dev/uscanner0".
It turns out that this is not the case, and thanks to you, now I know.

> In reality, I don't know the epson backend at all and don't own any
> epson scanner. So it's just a guess.

Good guess :)

Well, thank you all for your help!

-jj