Hi, On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Major A wrote: > "IMPORTANT: You cannot have both kernel scanner support enabled (i.e., > compiled in statically or the module loaded if a module) and libusb > installed and access the hardware at the same time, or nothing will > work." Why not? The only thing that won't work is sane-backends with a > USB scanner if it was built with libusb support. "nothing will work" > is a bit of an exaggeration. Also, libusb can safely be installed when > the kernel USB scanner module is loaded, even SANE will work as long > as sane-backend was built without libusb support.
Even if SANE was built with libusb support there is no problem. If the backend asks sanei_usb for a vendor/product id combination, sanei_usb will try both the kernel scanner driver and libusb. If the kernel scanner driver is loaded, it has priority over libusb and is used. Otherwise libusb is used. I can't think of any problem here at all. bye, Henning
