[sane-devel] 'scanner busy' 'no devices found' etc.

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:03:30PM +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Folks, I have been happily using xsane to do my scanning for quite
> a while. Now, for some inexplicable reason, when I start xsane it comes
> up with 'no devices available' If I enter the command scanimage -d
> epson:/dev/usb/scanner0' I get the error message 'scanner busy'. If I
> run 'sane-find-scanner' it tell me that it found the following:- 

"Device busy"? That usually means that another application or driver
is using the scanner. Maybe some KDE stuff is locking the scanner in
the background?

To find out which application is blocking your scanner try that:

fuser -v /dev/usb/scanner0

Does "scanimage -L" show your scanner?

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Bye,
  Henning