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

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 04:07, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

Hello Henning,
> 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

The command '/sbin/fuser -v /dev/usb/scanner0' produces no output.
> 
> Does "scanimage -L" show your scanner?

No, the output follows:-

[graeme@barney graeme]$ scanimage -L

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).
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> Bye,
>   Henning

My apologies Henning, wont happen again. Thank you for your response. My
answers to your questions are above. The funny thing is I thought it may
be locked by some other app. but the KDE scanning app., Kooka, runs OK.
and it also uses sane. Can you think of anything else I can try?
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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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