Hi all, I have a major issue with my Epson perfection 2480 photo scanner. It used to run in FreeBSD. I haven't used it in a few weeks during which upgrades occured and I noticed this week it stopped working. Portupgrade of sane had replaced the snapscan.conf file, I put back there my correct firmware file with full pathname but it still doesn't work.
Since I track 5.4/5-STABLE, I first reverted to 5.4-RELEASE. When the scanner worked, it used to be initialised at boot time (makes the double noise) but even after the downgrade it wasn't. I also downgraded Xsane to 0.98 but it didn't help either. I don't have any older tar of sane-backends in distfiles and didn't delete those for a long time, so I haven't tried downgrading backends. I don't understand. Usual errors are either "No device available" or : Failed to open device 'snapscan:libusb:/dev/usb1:/dev/ugen0': Error during device I/O. It isn't a permission problem since I'm trying to fix this as root. The kernel, however, sees the scanner when it connects: dmesg |grep EPSON ugen0: EPSON EPSON Scanner, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 2 I may be mistaken but may be the system used to see the scanner as uscanner0 or something back when it used to work. When I reset the scanner (unplug the power chord), the ready light is green, until the system tries to initalise it, at which point it turns off (pale green). Please can anyone else who experienced similar problems or who is using this scanner in FreeBSD provide usable input? Thanks a lot.
