On Tuesday 02 May 2006 20:59, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > sane-backends provides scanner lists and scripts for hotplug, > hotplug-ng and udev. They can be found together with some > documentation in the tools directory. There were some changes in CVS > recently concerning the generation of the scanner lists, so there is > the chance that I broke something. But in pronciple, it works. The > udev script is also used by the Debian package, in fact it was written > by the Debian SANE maintainer :-)
I've installed the libsane.rules in the /udev/rules.d/ directory, but it didn't help. Yes my scanner is in the list! > In our poackage, the udev (and hotplug ...) scripts are NOT installed > automatically. Understood, and I've installed them manually. > /dev/usbscanner (and similar device files like /dev/usb/scanner0) > refer to the kernel scanner driver which does not exist on current > kernels. Don't used them. I guessed this was the case, but thought it was worth a try! I'll remove that part of my script. > SANE uses libusb which uses /proc/bus/usb/... or /dev/bus/usb, > whichever is available. For udev, /dev/bus/usb/... is used (see > README.linux). Wittawat Yamwong (further up the list) seems to think there may be a bug in libusb, and has offered a workaround. I hope to give it a try before I go to work tomorrow. I'm going to be pretty tied up for the next few days, but will be pursuing this as and when I can. I haven't given up, I just need to earn some money ;-) Thanks for your help! -- Pete chri...@attglobal.net
