Latest kernel breaks scanner

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 8 14:56:11 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:43:53PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20090308203157.GC30672 at citylink.fud.org.nz>
>             Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:06:59PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > Sigh.  Had a working system from Mar 4th.  Upgraded now it doesn't
> : > work.  Scanner not found by xsane.
> : 
> : Are you sure its not this?
> : 
> : 20090227:
> :    The /dev handling for the new USB stack has changed, a
> :    buildworld/installworld is required for libusb20.
> 
> Yes.  Been there, done that.  Also have the libmap.conf changes in
> place for old binaries that had worked for months before that.  xsane
> used to just work in this setup, but now fails.  Looks like some kind
> of mismatch in the ABI:
> 
> found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0

Not sure what would have caused that. Before you spend too much time on
this you may want to note that the integration patches for libusb into
the ports build will likely be committed tomorrow. This will bump the
port numbers so the affected ports rebuild, hopefully sane with DTRT
after that.


Andrew


More information about the freebsd-usb mailing list