On 06-04-04 20:24:53 Jochen Eisinger wrote: > I just wrote a short patch to sane-find-scanner which detects mustek > parallel port devices. With sanei_pa4s2 it's possible to get a list > of possible ports. All the patch does is trying to open those ports > using the sanei_pa4s2 - the sanei_pa4s2 contains the whole low-level > stuff, so no device dependant code is included in sane-find-scanner. > > In order to avoid problems with parallel port printers or other > hardware if no scanner is present, you have to give the switch -p to > sane-find-scanner if you want your scanner detected. > > Example: > > # sane-find-scanner -p -q > found possible Mustek parallel port scanner at "parport0" > > Any comments on this?
It looks good. I'm all for including it (but I may be a bit prejudiced :-). Maybe other pp scanners can be detected in a similar way. Best regards, Eddy
