[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1250Photo doesn't work.

[Slawomir Sejda]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> first of all, please also post to the list - not only to me!
>
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 09:28, Slawomir Sejda wrote:
> [SNIPSNAP]
>>>
>> Hi
>>
>> First of all thanx for this tip.
>>
>> I have the same, look at the output:
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> [plustek] ---------------------
>> [plustek] usbDev_open(auto,) - 0x806c728
>> [plustek] sanei_access_lock failed: 11
>> [plustek] open failed: -1
>> [plustek] sane_get_devices (0xbfac54a8, 0)
>>
>> 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).
>> [plustek] sane_exit
>>
>>
>> I think something is wrong here. I checked my dll.conf and plustek.conf
>> and everything is ok.
>> I dont know what is going on but when I compile stable or install
>> slackware package (doesn't matter) everything is ok and scanner works.
>> Even earlier CVS snapshot worked fine. As I wrote I have this problem in
>> CVS after latest changes in plustek backend.
>>
>
> in the end, nothing is wrong ;)
> The locking mechanism has been enabled but could not lock the device
> and therefore you'll have no success.
>
> Please try the next one:
> xport SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_ACCESS=255 ; scanimage -L
> [sanei_debug] Setting debug level of sanei_access to 255.
> [sanei_access] sanei_access_init: >plustek<
> [sanei_access] sanei_access_lock: devname >libusb:002:003<, timeout: 5
> [sanei_access] sanei_access_lock: success
> [sanei_access] sanei_access_unlock: devname >libusb:002:003<
> [sanei_access] sanei_access_unlock: devname >libusb:002:003<
> device `plustek:libusb:002:003' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner
>
> and what about:
> ls -l /var/lock
>
> and what does
> id
> show?
>
>
> Probably you do not have access to /var/lock/sane
>
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
>
>
Hi, Gerhard

Thanks a lot, I made a stupid mistake durng compilation, forgot and 
configured sane without --localstatedir=/var flag and by default in 
/usr/var/lock there was no sane directory. I recompilled sane-backends and now Epson works fine.

Regards,
Slawek