On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > Please submit a PR with these both lines.
will do - I didn't do that straight away because I saw no functional difference. And then there is the other unresolved problem that sane-find-scanner no longer identifies the scanner: # sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0121) at /dev/uscanner0 while scanimage does: # scanimage -L device `snapscan:/dev/uscanner0' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner So, I guess my patches are not fully right. > > I don't know if there is any benefit from using the uscanner > > device other than the ability to set permissions for the scanner > > only. > > Using uscanner(4) is "the FreeBSD way", ugen(4) is for USB devices > without specific driver. > > You have to use uscanner(4), period :) OK, you win :) I let the alternative solution stand for those who don't like messing with their source code and don't want to wait for the patch to be adopted - after all it works even if it's non FreeBSDish. Cheers - and thanks for your advice, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"