[sane-devel] xsane errors

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-28 08:31, Gary Montalbine wrote: > I get the following errors from xsane: > > >(xsane:5227): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_label_new: assertion `string != > >NULL' failed [...] You can enable debugging by running xsane like this: XSANE_DEBUG=255 xsane (use a lower debug level to d

[sane-devel] HP Scanjet 2400

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-04-28 18:46, Pusk?s R?bert wrote: > I have a HP Scanjet 2400 scanner, and I found out, that it's > unsupported by sane. Even in the Genesys backend. Will my scanner be > supported, in the near future? This depends on you. The general backend code is there, "only" the adaption of it to

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On 2006-05-02 14:17, Peter Christy wrote: > I've built the latest cvs of sane and installed it, but it seems that it > still > relies on hotplug to set permissions for USB devices. My system no longer has > hotplug (nor does Debian, I believe, and many others are in the process of > droppi

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
try this: SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=255 scanimage -L then look thru that output. do you see a line like this: [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_init: Looking for kernel scanner devices what comes immediately after that? allan On Tue, 2 May 2006, Peter Christy wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:40, m. allan n

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Christy
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 17:40, m. allan noah wrote: > i am confused by this- first you say that you need sane to look under > /sys or /dev for devices, then you say that you have to alter permissions > to get it working. which is it? udev mounts the usbscanner under /sys In my case, under /sys/bus/

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Wittawat Yamwong
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:17, Peter Christy wrote: > [...] > I can't find anyway of making sane use the /sys (or /dev) devices rather > than /proc. Neither does it seem possible to make udev change the > permissions of devices mounted under /proc. (The naming systems are > different) I'm not famil

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
i am confused by this- first you say that you need sane to look under /sys or /dev for devices, then you say that you have to alter permissions to get it working. which is it? allan On Tue, 2 May 2006, Peter Christy wrote: > I'm running Slackware-current, and using udev *without* hotplug to tr

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
you likely know more about it than i do, but i am not sure why it became sane's responsibility to setup your hardware permissions. sane developers attempt to help because we have a pretty good list of scanner usb ids, but sane supports dozens of os variants, making it quite difficult for us to

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Christy
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:50, m. allan noah wrote: > we take patches :) > Which I would love to supply, but I've no idea where to start! My programming days ended with the 8-bit era! Seriously though, I've been trying to work out if there is anyway of working around the issue, so far withou

[sane-devel] Hotplug and udev files created automatically now, please test!

2006-05-02 Thread m. allan noah
we take patches :) allan On Tue, 2 May 2006, Peter Christy wrote: > I'm running Slackware-current, and using udev *without* hotplug to try and > improve start-up times. > > I've built the latest cvs of sane and installed it, but it seems that it still > relies on hotplug to set permissions for U